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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the company will not hire more engineers in fiscal year 2026.
Salesforce did not hire new engineers in fiscal 2026 due to AI-powered coding agents.
KEY POINTS
- AI tools have boosted Salesforce’s engineering productivity by about 30%, reducing hiring needs.
- Anthropic models, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor augment roughly 15,000 Salesforce engineers, not replace them.
- Salesforce expanded its sales team by nearly 20% to support customer relationships and AI product adoption.
- AI agents now manage more customer support tasks, leading Salesforce to reduce hiring in that department.
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