This email makes no sense.

Let me paraphrase them:

We bet on mobile and won big. AI is great. AI tutors are a thing.

Therefore we’ll get AI to understand our codebase and get it to fo stuff people did before

This isn’t “betting on” AI. This is outsourcing to AI.

You can be an AI company (theoretically) - have people make AI models that are then deployed. Note the lack of recursively, made-by-AI-for-AI products and services.

Tbh, Duolingo was always a gimmick. It doesn’t teach you a language. It teaches you small snippets of 5-10 words each with little to no grammar. It’s repetitive and boring. It was that way before the lives they said they’d never add.

They lost me as a user when they rolled out lives.

Now, I hope they lose someone else.

Duolingo has potential. But learning a language always required a large time investmant, and it always will.

I assume its lessons will only get worse than they already are.