Canary in a Coal Mine scores the condition most in motion right now — your career in the AI era — and ties it to live, monitored intelligence rather than a snapshot frozen in time. Alongside it: Cher Ami, a crisis-resource page that is free forever.
A free career risk scorer and a crisis-resource page, backed by a live intelligence layer. You answer nine questions about the work you actually do; you get a position on a map — not a doom number — and a plain-language read on where you stand. No account. No paywall. No ideology — just awareness.
Anyone can scrape a cost-of-living index or a job-risk calculator. What's hard to copy — and what makes this worth returning to — is judgment that stays current. A score with stale facts underneath is worse than no score, because it signals "monitored" while not being monitored. So the discipline is simple and strict:
Every figure is dated. Every claim is sourced. When the world moves, the page moves with it — and when the underlying facts can't be re-verified, they're softened rather than restamped.
The editorial point of view on Career is that the honest signal is deployment reality, not capability hype — what AI is actually doing in production today, where premature rollouts are backfiring, and what that means for the person holding the job.
Canary is a solo project — designed, written, built, and maintained by one person. The work spans more than code: