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Duolingo's CEO admits where he got AI wrong
Duolingo's CEO says his widely circulated AI memo was misunderstood, but he also concedes that key parts of it were wrong, including a blanket policy to evaluate all employees on AI usage that has since been removed. The company found that mandating AI use across every role led some employees to adopt it performatively without actual productivity gains. On the product side, AI-generated content at scale produces about 20% "slop" that requires human quality control, a gap between demo-ready output and production-grade results.
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