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Duolingo CEO Reverses AI-First Mandate: 'I'm Not Going to Force You' — Meta Goes Opposite Direction
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn publicly reversed the company's AI-first policy for employee performance reviews after backlash from both employees and users (some deleted the app). Von Ahn told Financial Times he 'did not expect the blowback' and noted AI-written code was difficult to debug and stories weren't consistently reliable. Meanwhile, Meta now requires engineers to have a percentage of code changes be agent-assisted and has made AI-driven impact a core performance expectation — two major companies taking opposite approaches to the same adoption challenge.
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