Introducing Conscience
We’re releasing Conscience, a Rust CLI that evaluates the ethical impact of AI-assisted software development. It examines your GitHub activity and AI tool logs, maps what it finds to a framework of ethical principles, and generates questions for your team to discuss. It’s a discernment tool — it surfaces patterns, but humans decide what they mean. The gap it fills AI coding tools track tokens, latency, and acceptance rates. Project managers track velocity and throughput. Nobody tracks whether AI is making your team’s work more human — whether developers are growing or being de-skilled, whether benefits are shared or concentrated, whether the environmental cost is proportionate to the value delivered. ...