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In this episode, we discuss AI disruption in the industry, economic concerns, Microsoft shenanigans, OpenAI's precarious business position, and 2026 predictions for the Salesforce ecosystem and beyond.Links:Wall Street Gold on X: "🚨 RAY DALIO WARNS: “Its not a recession which is going to hit US & the World but a total breakdown of Monetary System” https://t.co/AZDZnsJ9Fy" / XDavid Shapiro ⏩ on X: "BEARISH ON OPENAI The investment case for OpenAI has never been more precarious than it is right now in late 2025. What was once a company that seemed destined to dominate the artificial intelligence revolution has revealed itself to be a structurally disadvantaged challenger https://t.co/EooNH6Tp8B" / XPeter Girnus 🦅 on X: "A few days ago Microsoft deactivated IntelliCode in VS Code. 60 million downloads. Free. Unlimited suggestions. Worked offline. They killed it. The replacement is Copilot. 2,000 free suggestions. Then you pay. I called it "platform evolution." Leadership loved that https://t.co/0155mgZvI9" / XMarcin Krzyzanowski on X: "don't blame the system, blame ceo https://t.co/uo9miskD2P" / XThe Windows 11 Crisis - YouTubeHannah Sumi on X: "@pixelsebi @gothburz This is the measurement gap I keep talking about. "47 opened it" out of 4,000 seats = 1.2% adoption But the graph goes "up and to the right" When you measure vanity metrics instead of actual usage, you can justify anything. This is why 85% claim AI agents but only 16% are real." / XThe Shift Towards In-House Platforms in Enterprise Tech | TikTokSalesforce's Marc Benioff Says He Might Rename the Company Agentforce - Business InsiderOpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment could top $10 billion

In this episode, we discuss experiences with AI coding, layoffs and unemployment, DevOps Center, Salesforce's Q1 financials, Informatica acquisition, and AI agents.Links:Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates - The New York TimesVictor on X: "Yann LeCun: I'm not interested in LLMs anymore - they're the past. The future is in four more interesting areas: machines that understand the physical world, persistent memory, reasoning, and planning. https://t.co/qRH7XVlbWq" / XSalesforce.com, Inc. - Salesforce Announces Quarterly DividendSalesforce just unveiled AI 'digital teammates' in Slack — and they're coming for Microsoft Copilot | VentureBeatSalesforce to Change the Name of 35 Certifications: What You Need to Know | Salesforce BenLuca Beurer-Kellner on X: "😈 BEWARE: Claude 4 + GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories, no questions asked. We discovered a new attack on agents using GitHub’s official MCP server, which can be exploited by attackers to access your private repositories. creds to @marco_milanta (1/n) 👇 https://t.co/ES9nuv2lzc" / XChamath Palihapitiya on X: "Not nearly enough people are talking about the implications of Klarna rolling back some of their AI bets. Not knowing any of the details, I can guess why: Replacing determinism or humans with probabilistic code is fraught with edge cases and require new ways of software" / XKlarna Saved $2 Million After Cutting Ties With Salesforce - BloombergSatya Nadella on X: "Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today:" / XShruti on X: "@Google 1. Gemini Live (Now free on Android & iOS) → Turn on your camera → Point at anything → Talk to Gemini about it in real time It now integrates with Maps, Calendar, Tasks, Keep so planning, shopping, or fixing things just got way smarter. https://t.co/qY1qplKfDC" / XWhat you should know from the Google I/O 2025 Developer keynote - Google Developers BlogOpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats - Ars TechnicaToby Rogers on X: "Whoa. 😳😳😳 "Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 AI model a simple script that would shut off the model when triggered. In 79 out of 100 trials, o3 independently edited that script so the shutdown command would no longer work." https://t.co/7fF1GYSmH5" / XRohan Paul on X: "Yann LeCun is not so optimistic about LLMs. 😟 "We are not going to get to human level AI by just scaling up MLMs. This is just not going to happen. There's no way. Okay, absolutely no way. And whatever you can hear from some of my uh more adventurous colleagues, it's not going https://t.co/qyC654lfkG" / XGitHub CEO on Why We'll Still Need Human Programmers - The New Stack

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's Super Bowl ad, various AI-related topics, SLDS2, and the Salesforce Spring '25 release.Links:Future of Jobs Report (World Economic Forum)Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff | Hacker NewsIntroducing SLDS 2 (Beta): The Future of Salesforce UI 6 Salesforce Spring ‘25 Updates for Developers | Salesforce BenFoxygen - Explore Open Source Salesforce PackagesSalesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI | DefectorSalesforce bet $10 million on Matthew McConaughey during layoffs. Now he's staring in a Super Bowl ad touting AI that's taking more jobs | FortuneIC2 Local Development Server Demo - YouTube

In this episode, we discuss the complexity of deciding between refactoring an existing org or starting over with a new org, Clara Shih's departure from Salesforce, return-to-office mandates, Agentforce Testing Center, and Marc Benioff's latest comments on AI.Links:Salesforce’s Agentforce Testing Center Ensures Accurate Agent Responses - CX TodayBold Names: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and the AI ‘Fantasy Land’ - Tech News Briefing - WSJ PodcastsSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff Thinks AI Has Hit a RoadblockTwenty is building an open source alternative to Salesforce | TechCrunchMy Journey to SMB1001 Certification - YouTubeAI obsessed Corporate America 😵‍💫✨ #ai #corporate - YouTube

In this episode, we discuss John Mulaney's roast of Dreamforce, AgentForce, Klarna's plans to stop using Workday and Salesforce, Illuminated Cloud, and AI-generated podcasts.Links:Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at DreamforceSF's Dreamforce conference has a warning about potential widespread layoffs(1) Amir Efrati on X: "😀 @Benioff wants to know more about Klarna CEO @klarnaseb's plans to stop using Salesforce & Workday and is not taking the public barbs lying down. from: https://t.co/1KeWvjoHz7 https://t.co/xjihbi7GnL" / XSalesforce’s New AI Strategy Acknowledges That AI Will Take Jobs(1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Fascinated at the AI enterprise SaaS pricing models: -Salesforce: AI extra charge -Microsoft: AI extra charge -Google: AI extra charge -Adobe: AI extra change -Oracle Fusion: AI included -NetSuite: AI included -Zoho: AI included Oracle, NetSuite, Google, Zoho, Microsoft have" / X(1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "My early thoughts so far on the @Benioff keynote today at #DF24. 1/ Agent Force: this is the “next new thing” and the star of the show. These agents look like what you could have expected chatbots and Einstein to do in 2016. It’s all about driving efficiency, revenue and https://t.co/8yGgIAMczB" / X(1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Wow @Benioff is in rare form in the post keynote QA. Thrown many expletives against its bigger rival: -science projects -spilling enterprise data everywhere -expensive -not solving real problems -mean people -their solution hallucinates -same pitch for 25 years -they’re DiY https://t.co/UdyZuijRLV" / X(1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Diego Rossi Haterz/Loverz Club on X: "Dreamforce Keynote so far has been 44 minutes of trying to convince us their new AI is more than a chatbot, and 6 minutes of Mark Benioff talking about his favorite Disneyland rides" / XAI can allow new kind of software developer • The RegisterDreamforce '24: Top 10 Announcements You Need to Know | Salesforce BenDreamforce '24 / Winter '25 New Feature Integration StatusBreaking News: Salesforce Acquire Zoomin for $450M | Salesforce BenDozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to reportSalesforce Closing Hillsboro, Oregon, Office Amid RTO Push - Business InsiderZoom (ZM) to Reduce Stock-Based Compensation for Workers - Bloomberg

In this episode, we discuss technology bolstering tipping culture, whether the DevOps Center is ready yet, lightning UI updates, the rise and fall of Stack Overflow, and the increase of spamming on LinkedIn.Links:The rise and fall of Stack Overflow | InfoWorld(26) Post | LinkedInEd Elson on X: "Salesforce is not an AI company, and that’s OK. https://t.co/pgAaBQaALb" / X“Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech | Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode, we discuss unit testing, Salesforce's rumored bid to acquire Informatica, Microsoft's ARM chips, Oracle moving headquarters to Nashville, and a few notable highlights from the Summer '24 release notes.Links:Blog | mitchspano.comDecoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica | CIOMicrosoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple - The VergeOracle’s Jump to Nashville Surprises Austin - WSJSalesforce Summer ’24 Release NotesSalesforce-Informatica acquisition talks fall through: Report | CIOSalesforce Crowned King of CRM for the 11th Year Running - CX TodaySalesforce: Improving Profitability And Robust Cash Flows (NYSE:CRM) | Seeking AlphaWhy Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) Could Be Worth WatchingSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff: AI should be a human right [Video]

In this episode, we catch up on the TrailblazerDX event, data cloud, various topics around generative AI coding assistants, and a brief discussion on approaching data de-duplication.Links:Danielle Larregui (@DnLarregui) / XNew study on coding behavior raises questions about impact of AI on software development – GeekWireMisconfigured Custom Salesforce Apps Expose Corporate DataDare Obasanjo🐀 on X: "Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code. He argues the rise of AI means we can replace programming languages with human language prompts thus enabling everyone to be a programmer. AI will kill coding. https://t.co/SxK9twhEby" / XJohn Carmack on X: "“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision demanded by traditional programming will remain valuable transferable attributes, but they won’t be a barrier to entry. Many…" / XJeff Bezos vs Jay Leno in 1999How generative AI will change low-code development | InfoWorldThe early returns on gen AI for software development | CIOIntroducing Devin, the first AI software engineerJohn A De Goes on X: "Hot take: If Devin can replace you, you're not a software engineer. 🌶️ If you think LLM-based approaches are months away from replacing engineers, you need to update your mental model of AI (cause it's broke). Devin is a cute trick for raising $$, but the real work lies ahead. https://t.co/yfTDH0AbvG" / XBillionaire Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii. And no one knows why : NPR

In this episode, we discuss Apple Vision Pro, Watson XCode Assistant, Microsoft becoming Oracle's largest customer, highlights from the Salesforce Spring '24 release notes, Slack, lessons learned as a developer list, and Benioff's interviews at Davos and AI.Links:Apple Vision Pro - Guided Tour - AppleSalesforce deepens Apple partnership with Apple Business Messaging and AR integrationIBM: Let’s create a more modern foundation for business with watsonx Code Assistant - YouTubeLarry Ellison's Masterpiece: Microsoft Becomes Oracle's Largest Customer!The Salesforce Developer’s Guide to the Spring ’24 Release | Salesforce Developers BlogSlack Catch Up feature: a Tinder-like card swipe for all your work messages - The VergeSlack CTO and cofounder Cal Henderson is out, replaced by Salesforce CTO Parker Harris | FortuneNintex reaches definitive agreement to acquire Skuid, a low-code application development product with easy design and build capabilities for operational leaders - Dec 12, 2023Santiago on X: "4 lessons I've learned after 20+ years of writing software: 1. The best code is the one I didn't write. 2. The best tool is the one I'm already using. 3. The best solution is the simplest one. 4. If I didn't test it, it doesn't work. 5. Communication wins over technical skills." / Xunusual_whales on X: "US office vacancies nationwide hit a record high in the fourth quarter of last year, per Axios." / XSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff: AI should be a human rightNoor Bin Ladin on X: "“We’re going to have digital people, these digital people are going to emerge, and there’s going to have to be a level of trust.” Salesforces CEO and WEF board trustee Marc Benioff, speaking on the panel “Technology in a Turbulent World” about humans being replaced by AI. https://t.co/SflpJfjQfj" / XEvery CEO must make this investment now: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff | Fox Business VideoWe don't want to see an AI 'Hiroshima,' Salesforce CEO warns

In this episode, we celebrate 10 years of producing this podcast and discuss a rant about Agile and Okta's security breach.Links:Brian Fear on X: "@SalesforceDevs I needed more CPU time in an org to create a test. The result is six times more CPU time and two times more heap. Tradeoffs apply, of course, but I thought I'd share. https://t.co/4yD345ILDP" / XI Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again — LudicityOkta's Latest Security Breach Is Haunted by the Ghost of Incidents Past | WIREDOkta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor | Ars TechnicaUnauthorized Access to Okta's Support Case Management System: Root Cause and Remediation | Okta Security

In this episode, we discuss our reactions to Marc Benioff's Dreamforce '23 Main Keynote.Links:Salesforce+ Dreamforce Main KeynoteI build products on Salesforce, and yes Marc Benioff, I am a developer and in your words I am a hardliner.

In this episode, we discuss low-code tools, code semantics, product first vs. code first, branching strategy, Nvidia's sales growth, AI grifting, and some notable updates from the Winter '24 release notes.Links:Broken Promises of the Low-Code Approach - The New StackCory House on X: "Some programmers are code-first. They focus on the code. Other programmers are product-first. They focus on the product and user experience. Strive to be product-first. Remember the Rule of Good Code: "If the product doesn’t work well, the code is not good."" / XNvidia’s, $NVDA, overall sales grew 101% on an annual basis to $13.51 billion in its second fiscal quarter, per CNBCCopado Branching StrategySalesforce Leads Financing of AI Startup at More Than $4 Billion Valuation — The InformationSalesforce Winter ’24 Release NotesHow a Former Crypto Trader Made Over $100K Teaching ChatGPT Course

In this episode, we get out of the office and record from our local watering hole, Thirsty Growler. We discuss AI and its general impact on developers, the repository pattern, SOQL Lib, SF CLI 2.0, Figma, Certinia, FFLib, Anchor Brewing, and many tangents thanks to the beer.Links:Long Sequence Modeling with XGen: A 7B LLM Trained on 8K Input Sequence LengthSalesforce Introduces XGen-7B, A Large Language Model With Longer Context Support'F—king bulls—t': A shocked San Francisco reacts to the end of Anchor BrewingJoys Of Apex: The Repository PatternBlock Authorization Flows to Improve SecuritySalesforce CLI Release Notes | Salesforce CLI Setup Guide | Salesforce DevelopersDesign for the web without FigmaThe Thirsty Growler - Craft Beer Taproom & Filling Station - The Thirsty Growler - HomeCertinia | Salesforce Cloud Platform ERP & PSA Software AppsGitHub - beyond-the-cloud-dev/soql-lib: The SOQL Lib provides functional constructs for SOQL queries in Apex.