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Actually, it kinda is? Who's verifying that all the lessons are teaching actually correct info, instead of bullshit?

I'm less worried about the "vibe coded" than "vibe-language-learning"

Though I do think there is vast potential for such things, it needs to be approached judiciously.

From trying it out, it's definitely vibe created because both the pronunciation and wording it provides in a language I know are wrong.

Duolingo (at least for the same language) has correct pronunciation and grammar/words, even if it's not a good way to learn.

It's vibe coded because every button looks different.

It absolutely is. I don't understand how people are so delusional to think that their AI slop has any value.

If I were fine with AI, I could just prompt the LLM myself to create a course perfectly catered to me. Why would I need you? Because your prompting skills are magic? Yeah, no. That is like charging for google search results because you searching skills are so great.

The whole problem with Duolingo is that it got so much worse once they started using AI. Switching to another AI driven project would be out of the frying pan into the fire.

Yes, it is an excellent reason to discard it as a slop.