Now, let's dive
deeper into how
developers can unlock the
agentic enterprise
on Salesforce.
Here to talk about the
new AI-powered tools
that make it faster,
safer, and easier
to build innovative
solutions are John
Bellow, Senior Director,
Product Management,
and Angelica Buffa,
a member of our
developer community
and a true trailblazer.
Now, John, the
keynote headlines, all
about AgentForce
vibes from a product
perspective. What's the
core purpose and what
problem are they
trying to solve for
developers with these
tools? So we're really
changing the game for
developers by enabling
them to do much
more strategic work,
much more big picture
work. So the agent,
the AI, can now do a
whole bunch of things
like scaffolding
code or preparing a
data model for an app
that just allows you
to accelerate building
things much faster.
But it goes a lot
beyond that, right?
We have, yes, use
cases like refactoring
code, like we can
see here in our
video. But beyond
that, we can also,
say, operate
DevOps Center, use
CodeAnalyzer to scan
and identify issues
in code, thanks to
the fact that Agent
4.5 is powered by
our DX MCP server.
And what the DX MCP
server does is basically
aggregate a range
of tools that allow
the agent, Agent 4,
to interact with all
of our traditional
developer experience
tools. So Salesforce
CLI, Code Analyzer,
LWCs, all of those
make it a lot easier
for the agent to
actually understand
and be equipped to
resolve problems,
developer problems,
like day-to
-day developer
problems, like
scaffolding code
and all that stuff.
Now, Agent Force
Pipes is available as
an IDE and as an
extension in VS Code.
And more importantly
of all, perhaps,
it is built for this
agentic enterprise.
and powered by
our trust layer.
Fantastic, Angelica,
what was your
reaction when you
saw Agent 4 survives?
That it's going to
change the developer
experience, you
know, from going from
analysis all the way
up through deployment.
It's that it's going
to happen in one
single place orchestrated
by an agent that
can do many things.
One of them is
understanding the context
that you are operating
in. And then you can
use, or the agent
is actually going to
use that information
to help you write
code that is going to
be secure, better
aligned with your
business needs and also
the best practices.
And at the end of the
day, that is going
to help you to be
more productive and
move faster because
you can ignore all that
noise that, you know,
happens when you
have to switch
context and tools, and
you can truly focus
on those problems that
require human insight.
And John, how do
these tools connect
with the DevOps
pipeline, specifically
with DevOps Center?
Right. Well, first
of all, here at
Dreamforce, we're
announcing the next
generation of DevOps
Center, which has been
reimagined for the
agentic enterprise.
And we made it
in a completely
API-first way,
which means that
we can now take
those APIs,
expose them as MCP
tools to the agent,
and the agent can
now understand them.
But importantly,
we start here with
this new UI, all
built and deeply
integrated into our
platform, super fast.
And then we can
easily transition over
to the agent and
actually operate
DevOps Center fully
end-to-end, which
means that I can
take, say, an idea,
I can build it
using Agent Force
Pipes, and I can
then commit that
idea, those changes
into my pipeline,
and then DevOps Center
can also test it,
we can also promote
it into our pipeline,
and all of this
following ALM best
practices and
empowering developers
and release
managers to do that
entirely through a
natural language.
So it's quite a
powerful thing, and
what we see here is
basically us literally
running an end-to
-end scenario of
interacting with the
agent and following
every single step
that you typically
do through the
DevOps Center UI.
Angelica, how do
you see tools like
this changing your
day-to-day workflow?
It's going to supercharge
what we can do as
developers because we
are no longer constrained
by what we like or
what we know because
now we have that coding
system that has helped
us build with confidence
across the entire
stack of technology
that we have to use,
even in those areas
that we lack experience.
So if you were to
give developers
something to keep
in mind as they
start experimenting
these tools, what
advice would you
tell them? Well,
I would say start
small, baby steps,
test out very
specific concrete
use cases to build
your confidence
on how agents
tend to operate
because agents do not
respond in the same
way all the time. You
need to understand how
they tend to think
about things. I can ask
an agent to do something
and it will go a
different way I need
to learn about that.
What about you, Angelica?
I think you have
to stay curious, and
you really need to
know how to ask the right
questions. If you're
not curious, you are
not going to identify
when or where those
tools can help you.
Or maybe if you need to
validate the questions,
the answers that
they are giving you.
And about the questions,
if you ask the
wrong ones, you're
going to get the wrong
answers. And at the
end of the day, that is
going to limit how
these tools can actually
help you. I love
that. Stay curious.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for your insights.
Thank you. That was
a perfect note to
end on. John and
Angelica, thank you so
much for joining us
on Salesforce Plus to
talk about the future
of development.
If you'd like to
learn more about the
DevOps Center or any of
these new innovations
for devs, just
scan the QR code on
screen or you can head
to the link sforce
.co slash df25 dash
DevOps dash center.
