This AI already writes 20% of Salesforce’s code. Here’s why developers aren’t worried

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declared that AI would write 90% of code within six months, the coding world braced for mass extinction. But inside Salesforce, a different reality has already taken shape. “About 20% of all APEX code written in the last 30 days came from Agentforce,” Jayesh Govindarajan, Senior Vice President of Salesforce AI, told me during a recent interview. His team tracks not just code generated, but code actually deployed into production. The numbers reveal an acceleration that’s impossible to ignore: 35,000 active monthly users, 10 million lines of accepted code, and internal tools saving 30,000 developer hours every month. Yet Salesforce’s developers aren’t disappearing. They’re evolving. “The vast majority of development — at least what I call the first draft of code — will be written by AI,” Govindarajan acknowledged. “But what dev ... Read full article.