Category: learning
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Duolingo Max is Expensive, Sad, and Ineffective
Duolingo gave me temporary access to their AI slop machine subscription, “Duolingo Max” which costs an extra $120 a year, twice what I’m paying for a Duolingo Super family plan right now. The main way you’d use Duolingo Max is through faux-video calls with Lily, Duolingo’s misanthropic cartoon teenager. I can see why someone…
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Duolingo Switches from Hearts to Energy; Adds Chess
I’ve been complaining about how Duolingo punishes users for mistakes for a long time now, they’re now moving from hearts that you lose when you make a mistake, to an energy mechanic according to this article from Jay Peters writing for The Verge: “Under the new system, you’ll spend one unit of energy to complete…
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Duolingo Re-confirms: “Slop Tasty, MMM Slop!”
Yesterday Duolingo’s CEO Luis Von Ahn re-confirmed that the slop is yummy in a post to Linkedin that was also sent to the entire company: “I’ve said this in Q&As and many meetings, but I want to make it official: Duolingo is going to be AI-first. AI is already changing how work gets done. It’s…