# Salesforce announced in 2024 that it would stop hiring software engineers in 2025.

*genai · news · 2026-05-18 · The Economic Times*

## Key points

- Salesforce will halt software engineer hiring in 2025 due to 30% productivity gains from AI tools.
- The company projects up to $300 million spending on Anthropic AI tokens focused on coding by 2026.
- Salesforce's engineers will work alongside AI agents, not be replaced by them, according to Benioff.
- Agentforce, Salesforce's AI-powered tool, has achieved $800 million in annual recurring revenue.
- Salesforce is developing AI systems to route requests between model sizes for cost-efficiency.

**Companies:** Salesforce
**Countries:** United States

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