Tarek Gara — WritingEssays on multilingual AI, alignment, language-learning, and the strange shape products take when they grow. The Loop, and adjacent.https://tarekgara.com/enWhy AI thinks in English and forgets in Arabichttps://tarekgara.com/writing/why-ai-thinks-in-english-and-forgets-in-arabic/https://tarekgara.com/writing/why-ai-thinks-in-english-and-forgets-in-arabic/On tokenization, context windows, and what gets lost when Semitic languages are treated as bloated data.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTessaytarekgara.comHow AI killed the soul of the world's favorite language-learning apphttps://tarekgara.com/writing/how-ai-killed-the-soul-of-duolingo/https://tarekgara.com/writing/how-ai-killed-the-soul-of-duolingo/On Duolingo's pivot from learning to engagement, and what 850 days of streaks failed to teach me.Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTessaytarekgara.comThe sanitization of intelligencehttps://tarekgara.com/writing/sanitization-of-intelligence/https://tarekgara.com/writing/sanitization-of-intelligence/On the alignment tax, corporate risk-aversion, and what "safe" AI gives up on its way to being safe.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTessaytarekgara.comStack drift: how growing products forget their own storyhttps://tarekgara.com/writing/stack-drift/https://tarekgara.com/writing/stack-drift/On the moment a product still works but its logic stops cohering.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTessaytarekgara.com