Shih: AI agents will dramatically transform software development and UI design
Clara Shih · No Priors Ep. 43 | With Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI · Dec 7, 2023 · at 13:46
Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI, discusses the shift toward agentic software workflows across enterprise engineering teams.
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“You know, as you're alluding to a lot, agents maturing and being able to do more, I think it's really going to dramatically transform the, how we approach software development, right? A lot of what was explicitly hard coded as different branching and execution paths and painstakingly specking out every screen in a user experience. Like a lot of that, maybe you could just like hand off to the agent to be able to do dynamically.”
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