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Do we need to "develop" apps anymore? Can consumers develop their own apps yet? The recent years of post-pandemic employment slump has been capturing headlines as tech leaders across the board have cut their staffing dramatically to achieve more efficiency in their businesses. Seeing hundreds of thousands of layoffs is a grim reminder of the boom/bust cycle that hangs over high-beta companies that leverage investment to scale up for unforeseeable future market demand. An interesting twist in the headlines over the last year is more of these companies seeking to “flatten their organization structures.” Often these stories have focused on machine learning automation of routine tasks and in some cases delegating creative engineering or product design work to automated tools. Legislators, who earn their salaries from taxing humans, wouldn’t want more mechanized labor in the work force because typically machines don’t pay taxes. But seeking to legislate staff retention is a ...

10 years ago a CEO standing on stage making a joke about someone’s web query would have been shocking instead of funny. This is because of major backlash that happened 20 years prior when AOL open sourced the query logs of 650000 random people to developers resulting in journalists using the query list to track down individuals with personally identifiable information in the logs. Those affected AOL users did not know they were in this now-public repository. But now our assumptions of scope of privacy are significantly shifted because of the era of social media that followed in the ensuing decade. The advent of micro-blogging along with vertical tools for yelping our food, foursquaring our shopping habits, tweeting our quips or instagramming our lifestyles expanded the scope of where the cameras and public visibility approached closer into our personal sphere. We came to be familiar with the concepts of privacy in a narrower scope of our private daily lives. But there is still confusi...