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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 MuleSoft and Camel similarities and take a brief tangent on the prevalence of XML as a data format, vibe-coding, SaaS fatigue, subscription overload, and Illuminated Cloud's support for GraphQL. Links:Salesforce Feature Retirements and Major Platform Updates for 2025 | Salesforce BenSalesforce Dark Mode Is Back: What Admins Need to Know | Salesforce BenIC GraphQL Integration Demo - YouTubeRenameforce: Salesforce Renames, Decoded

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 recent Salesforce-related news, Microsoft canceling AI data center leases, sentiments that AI isn't giving Salesforce a boost, Torvald's comments on AI, vibe-coding, Apple being late to release a full Siri AI, reinforcing a certain host's opinion of web development, and other related topics.Links:Why AI Isn’t Giving Salesforce a Boost — The InformationNIK on X: "🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Microsoft will not participate in OpenAI Stargate project due to overestimation of demand it’s over https://t.co/CwoBJFE6D5" / XLinus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ | Tom's HardwareStephan Rehfeld on X: "The advent of "web development" has been the worst thing to happen to computer science in its entire history and has nearly destroyed its foundation. In the beginning, the idea behind the Web was simple and ingenious: hypertext documents that link to each other and provide" / XHow to Keep More of Your Money by Reducing Taxes in RetirementApple's full Siri overhaul might be pushed back to 2027 | MashableApple AI Delays Spark Backlash Among Devoted Fans and Analysts - Business InsiderAndrej Karpathy on X: "There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper" / XVibe Coding Explained — The Information

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 Agentforce 2.0, OpenAI and general AI topics, and give our predictions for 2025.Links:Salesforce+ Event Agentforce 2-0Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 - YouTube(1) Marcelo P. Lima on X: "Watch Nadella describe SaaS apps as nothing more than a CRUD database with some business logic, but once the business logic moves to AI agents, SaaS is over: https://t.co/oWwHS1o2V1" / X(1) Chamath Palihapitiya on X: "What I Read This Week… U.S. AI companies are facing electrical grid constraints as their computing needs outstrip existing power and data center capacity. What's going on? Training large AI models requires massive computing power – for example, training GPT-4 reportedly used" / XThe Future of AI Agents: Top Predictions for 2025Sierra - The Conversational AI PlatformAI Is Marc Benioff’s Friend—and Foe — The InformationHow TikTok Is Shaking up E-Commerce in the US With Shopping Product - Business Insider

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 Benioff's comments on Microsoft Copilot and AI being overhyped, AI being a race to the bottom, and a few notable Winter '25 release note features.Links:Starboard Value's Jeff Smith says Salesforce has 'a lot more to go'Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft | TechCrunchGoogle News - SearchEinstein Data PrismLightning Web Security Enablement Rollout Remains PostponedMigrate to a Multiple-Configuration SAML Framework (Release Update)Migrate to a Local External Client App from Your Local Connected AppTrack Apex Unexpected Exceptions with Free-Tier Event MonitoringMlíko - Gastro ObscuraWhy does beer in Europe have huge foam head? (Honest Beer Guide) - 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 the Good Day, Sir! community meetup at Dreamforce, challenges with deployments, invocable methods, Salesforce's acquisition of Own, Salesforce's AI strategy, and Ellison's view on AI winners.Links:Salesforce has 'the droids you are looking for': CEOSalesforce deploys autonomous AI agents, hailing 'the third wave of the AI revolution'Salesforce's AI efforts have been 'disappointing': AnalystThe Transcript on X: "$ORCL CTO Larry Ellison: "I went to dinner with @elonmusk, Jensen Huang..& I would describe the dinner as Oracle & me & Elon begging Jensen for GPUs. Please take our money....No, no, take more of it. You're not taking out enough. We need you to take more of our money, please" https://t.co/atBUJaULCS" / XGood Day, Sir! Meetup (Slack)