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Kansu: Current AI coding tools only boost developer productivity by 10-20%
“I think my read right now is more of the latter. And also the magnitude of multiplication is way lower than like 10 X-ing things. I think it's maybe in the realm of like 10 to 20% more productivity, Of an average engineering capacity.”
Kansu: AI tools will cause engineering, product, and design roles to converge
“I think what is likely to happen is there is clear work definitions of what an engineer does today, what a product manager does, and what a designer does. I think these are going to converge way more than what's happening today in technology organizations.”
Kansu: AI will completely transform product management within two years
“Honestly, now, probably in 12 to 24 months, the job of a PM will look entirely different. So I think we're talking about five years because that feels safe, but honestly, my guess now, or what I've changed my mind on is, it's going to be in two years, is my gu…”
Kansu: Duolingo Math and Music took double the time of AI-prototyped Chess
“Our experience with doing this is, was with math and music before. It was triple the amount of people and double the amount of time it takes to get a course out.”
Kansu: AI product tools will generate complete apps within 12 months
“In my opinion, that will get solved in, I don't know, maybe 12 months, but I think if you know how to use these tools to create product, build product, and you can kind of harness their power to build great things, you'll come out ahead.”
Kansu: Future software will dynamically generate user interfaces on the fly
“What hasn't emerged much is UI creation that is also AI first. So I think you'll see a lot of on the fly UI generation off of what you're doing instead of hard coded UI that comes into play.”
Kansu: Duolingo aims to improve existing subjects 10x rather than expand subject count
“The goal is not to get to 40 subjects and do them all equally the same. I think make what we have, Tenex, better is the primary goal.”
Kansu: Merchandising will become a much larger revenue line for Duolingo
“We do have this revenue line, but it's incredibly small today, but I think it will be way bigger is merchandising.”
Kansu: Users reaching a 30-day Duolingo streak have near 100% retention
“What we intend to see is if you've reached a 30 day streak, so you've built up a 30 day streak, your retention is very close to a hundred percent.”
Kansu: Over 50% of subscribers choose Duolingo's recommended middle option
“I don't remember the exact percentage, but certainly more than, it's the majority, more than 50%.”
Kansu: Duolingo enforces specific design language and pixel-perfect details on every screen
“No, we take pride a lot in the pixel perfect details. Like, I think you'll see that in the product, right? It's like every screen will have a very specific design language. Characters will be very specific, etc.”