Ever Been Told You’re A Horse-Drawn Carriage in 1910?

A WhatsApp group I'm in filled with senior marketers in Singapore went into meltdown yesterday over a tool called Parker. The reactions were so entertaining I had to try it myself.

You drop in your LinkedIn URL. The AI tells you how replaceable you are. Brutally. With a score out of ten.  Here's what it said about me.

AI Threat Level: 7.8/10. Classification: DECORATED OVERHEAD.

"You have spent 25 years navigating the upper echelons of media, only to realise that 'strategic media planning' is now a background task for an algorithm. Being named APAC Agency Head of the Year in 2023 is like being the best horse-drawn carriage driver in 1910 — you've reached the peak of a profession that is currently being deleted."

It gets better. My career moat score: 6.8/10.

"Your UCL Law degree and Harvard Business School certificates provide a nice prestige shield, but they won't stop an LLM from drafting better commercial negotiations. Your moat is made of 'Client Relations' and 'Stakeholder Management,' which are just polite terms for being the expensive human latency in a digital workflow."

And the closer: "You are effectively a very high-end, award-winning API wrapper for media agencies."

Now…. is this accurate? Kind of, which is why it stings. Is it the whole story? Absolutely not.

Here's what Parker can't see. It can't see that the industry made that decision for me first - I was made redundant in 2024.  But it also doesn’t know that I came to this diagnosis a year ago, and started doing something about it. An AI for Leaders course at SMU. Teaching myself to vibe code. And now, building something of my own in the AI space.

Parker reads your past. It has no idea what you're building next. Then again, neither does any AI - imagination and the ability to create something genuinely new remain stubbornly human.

But I'd encourage everyone to try it anyway. Not to spiral. To ask honestly: if this roast feels accurate, what am I actually doing about it?

Try it here: https://candidate.perfectly.so/roast