# Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI coding agents have made the company's 15,000 engineers over 30% more productive.

*business · news · 2026-04-11 · Times of India*

## Key points

- Salesforce did not hire any new engineers in fiscal year 2026 due to AI productivity gains.
- AI coding agents now handle up to 50% of Salesforce's total workload at about 93% accuracy.
- Salesforce engineers are shifting from coding to supervising AI agents from Anthropic, OpenAI Codex, and Cursor.
- Salesforce increased its sales staff by nearly 20% to meet rising market demand.

**Companies:** Salesforce

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