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Benioff: Salesforce Will Not Hire Software Engineers in 2025 Due to AI
“We're not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with AgentForce and with other AI technology that we're using for our engineering teams by more than 30% to the point where our engineering velocity is …”
Benioff: Salesforce Will Reduce Support Engineer Headcount in 2025
“We will have less support engineers next year because we have an agentic layer”
Marc Benioff Predicts AGI Will Not Be Achieved in 2025
“I don't think we are in AGI in twenty-twenty-five, so I think that's an optimistic thought.”
Marc Benioff Expects LLMs to Commoditize and Mature in 2025
“I think the, we're gonna hit the maturation of the LLM in twenty-twenty-five, so I'll say that. I believe that LLMs are becoming commodities and that we're cresting the LLMs, that they're getting incrementally more successful, but not exponentially more succes…”
Benioff: Enterprise SaaS applications will endure alongside AI agents
“There is going to be a level of application functionality that is going to be required. And there's no question that these apps that, you know, our users are on today are still going to be very much a part of how they do get their work done and that they opera…”
Benioff: AI will drive an order of magnitude increase in SMBs
“There is going to be a radical explosion of small and medium businesses like yours, because entrepreneurs like you can do more than ever. So while the enterprises are kind of trying to figure out, are they going to DIY it? And are they going to do this? Or are…”
Benioff: The next AI wave will be autonomous agents leading to AGI
“And then we've got another big wave coming very, very close. Which is going to be autonomous and agents. And then of course we'll get to AGI.”
Benioff: San Francisco real estate will be sold out again
“I think that San Francisco real estate will certainly be sold out again because of the huge amount of startups that are happening in San Francisco”
Benioff: Salesforce team, not CEO, will decide Dreamforce's future in SF
“I'm allowing my team to make the decision. We have a new CMO who. You know, move the Oracle conference out of San Francisco and moved it to Vegas. So it's definitely on his mind that that's a real possibility. I'm going to obviously advocate for San Francisco,…”
Benioff: Every software product Salesforce sells will be agentic
“I don't think that there will be a piece of software that we sell that will not be agentic.”
Benioff: Salesforce Projects Thousands of Agentforce Deals in Q4
“We'll do thousands of agent force deals this quarter”
Benioff: Salesforce Will Add 1,000 to 2,000 Salespeople Short-Term
“We'll have more salespeople next year because we need to really explain to everybody exactly the value that we can achieve with AI. So we will add another probably one to 2000 salespeople in the short term.”
Benioff: Salesforce Will Move Its Entire Company Onto Agentforce
“That I've moved my whole support infrastructure to the agentic platform. I will move my whole sales platform to the agentic platform as well. I'll move my whole company onto agent force for no other reason what to show my customers what is possible.”
Benioff: Salesforce Is Focusing Exclusively on AgentForce Over Other Products
“When I just rolled out AgentForce, you'll notice that we're not going to talk a lot about all of Salesforce's products, which are amazing. You know, on the podcast, I'm going to keep coming back to AgentForce because that's all I'm focused on right now.”