AI will eliminate 40% of dev jobs in 5 years.
Not the architects. Not the debuggers. Not the domain experts.
The CRUD generators.
The 60% that remain will be more valuable than ever.
Which category are you in? 👇
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Salesforce development is changing fast.
The real shift is not “AI writes Apex now.”
It is that Salesforce developers are starting to build with an AI-assisted loop around the whole engineering system:
context from the repo,
context from the org,
context from metadata,
context from tests,
context from deployment errors,
and context from the release process.
Claude Code and Codex are useful when they stay close to the codebase. They can help read existing patterns, patch Apex and LWC, repair test classes, explain SOQL, summarize metadata changes, and prepare PR notes.
But the bigger unlock is MCP.
Once assistants can connect to Salesforce tools, org data, Data 360, Code Analyzer, and secure developer workflows, the assistant stops being a chat window and starts becoming part of the delivery system.
The best Salesforce developers will not be replaced by this.
They will become sharper reviewers, faster debuggers, better release operators, and stronger system thinkers.
The human still owns judgment:
security,
governor limits,
sharing,
FLS,
bulkification,
rollback risk,
and what actually ships.
AI helps draft, test, inspect, and explain.
The developer still approves, secures, and releases.
That is the new Salesforce developer loop.
#Salesforce #SalesforceDevelopers #Agentforce #ClaudeCode #OpenAICodex #AIEngineering #Apex #LWC #SOQL #MCP #DataCloud #Data360 #SalesforceDX #DevOps #AIProductivity #EngineeringLeadership #FutureOfWork
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RADDBG has so much inbuilt cool visualisations and features that lots of debuggers lack, it's mindblowing.
@rfleury walks me through how to get the most out of it
youtube.com/watch?v=rcJwvx2C…
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Yes, I can see an advantage in giving AI access to a debugger in some domains. I've seen it use LLDB/GDB autonomously while debugging parts of Sane C Libraries.
Ironically, debuggers seem more useful to AI agents than they do to me these days.
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Surgeries have risk
So your argument is let's stop surgeries
My metaphor, if you do not understand is that a risk exists when you work with something of that much power as hardware (or C)
The management of risk is done by tools such as sanitizers and debuggers
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Launching with ABSOLUTELY zero exclusive new games is wild! Kinda like the Xbox Series consoles. How well did that do? There's many headsets that have the capabilities of the frame unless you're one of the few exceptionally skilled tinkerers/debuggers.
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