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Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

“Duolingo will remain a company that cares deeply about its employees”

Except for the contract employees. Fuck those people.

In 2012, we bet on mobile. [...] That decision helped us win the 2013 iPhone App of the Year and unlocked the organic word-of-mouth growth that followed. Betting on mobile made all the difference. We’re making a similar call now, and this time the platform shift is AI.

I think this is some sort of fallacy, not sure which tho. Maybe a hasty generalization? "We bet on mobile twelve years ago and won, so if we bet on AI now we'll also win."

*It also seems they're using AI to code... those poor programmers will have to double check every single line it shits out because you know, it's a fucking AI. Yet another company succumbs to a CEOs emotional FOMO.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 18 points 1 day ago

"past performance is not indicative of future results¨

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Except for the contract employees. Fuck those people.

I mean technically the contractors are not employees

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Technically my shit is edible, technically.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, like, I think this is a bad move for Duolingo as a company, since their code quality will rapidly go downhill with the current state of AI generated code.

But also, if you are a contract employee, you should be prepared to be let go at any moment. That's sort of the whole point of being a contract employee - you are only employed for the contract. It isn't unethical in anyway for a company to not rehire employees who knew up front that they might not be rehired.