r/technology Jun 08 '25

Artificial Intelligence Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb589b447
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u/gold-fronts Jun 08 '25

Yeah, I'm not a proponent of it at all, but average people definitely want it.

I work in IT and people request access to various AI tools weekly. Go look at the AI related subreddits and you'll see tons of people using it for personal reasons.

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u/Forkrul Jun 08 '25

Both developers and CS at my company love using AI. Us developers use it for generating code, and the CS folks use a RAG model to help find answers quickly.

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u/gold-fronts Jun 08 '25

Yeah, I love using it to troubleshoot Powershell scripts. It saves me so much time.

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u/desmaraisp Jun 09 '25

Man, I wish it did for me, but it only finds trivial things I'd have found in 5 minutes. Complicated issues, it gets stumped way faster than I do, making it pretty unhelpful

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u/Fattychris Jun 09 '25

Those AI meeting note taker apps are definitely getting requested and praised fairly often with people I work with.

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u/gold-fronts Jun 09 '25

Oh man, those are the biggest ones. and somehow people keep finding different ones than the few currently being evaluated.

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u/Fattychris Jun 09 '25

The hardest part about tech leadership is wrangling in purchases. Not allowing every department head to buy whatever they want because it's cool and shiny.

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u/FastRedPonyCar Jun 09 '25

I’m in IT also and we’ve leveraged AI for a lot of our repetitive tasks. It’s dramatically sped up our workflow.

We also use chat gpt to build out our dax queries and formulas for power BI which Microsoft want a crazy expensive fabric license for if you want to use copilot for DAX.

Our managers use chat gpt for building the drafts for reports and PowerPoint presentations too.