Tag: AI

Last month I wrote about how to connect AI directly to Salesforce. Since then, I’ve actually followed the instructions in that email. The results were better than I expected.

Using this approach, your AI understands your entire project. So you can ask it questions and have it perform tasks for you.… Read the rest

With each passing week, AI gets smarter and smarter.

Apex coding, formula building, general searching, and troubleshooting are currently well positioned to be completely superseded by AI.

However there’s one important thing that hasn’t been replaced just yet; your humanity.

As a Salesforce consultant, your career isn’t completely technical.… Read the rest

The recent examples provided on using AI and Salesforce are disconnected.

That is, you need to do something in Salesforce, so you provide all relevant information to an AI. It gives you an answer, and you implement it. But the AI doesn’t “see” your Salesforce instance and understand the entire context.… Read the rest

Years ago, Google became a household name. It started as a noun and turned into a verb. You “googled” something when you wanted to search for it on the internet.

Fun fact #1: Google’s name comes from the word “googol”, which is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
Fun fact #2: I used AI for this fact, not Google

Today, AI is overtaking, or already has overtaken, google searches.… Read the rest

Aside from writing apex code, AI can be a helpful tool for Salesforce consultants.

Here are a few for your consideration:

Field labels
If you’re ever struggling to come up with a concise name for a field, AI can help.

For example, in a current project in which users complete a form, the answers need to be saved in fields.… Read the rest

While AI may not be a full replacement of a good developer, it can still help in some instances.

Using the prompt, “Write a Salesforce LWC that allows users to edit a field”, Gemini Pro actually built a working lightning web component (LWC).… Read the rest

You may not have known this, but in a previous life, I was a software developer.

It’s been years since I’ve developed, so I’m not an expert in apex. There are far too many awesome developers out there, and I lean on them for help.… Read the rest

While at DreamOle last week, a term was used that I’ve never heard before. To paraphrase, the person said, “Product owners want AI-first products”.

There are several prominent “first” terms.

For example, the term “mobile-first products” is familiar to most. If not, at a certain moment in the past, there was a big shift to ensure all new websites and applications were responsive.… Read the rest

Last week I wrote about how, despite the trending chatter, I don’t believe AI will fully replace developers in the short term.

Today I had a conversation with a colleague about this topic, and another interesting consideration arose.

If AI writes the apex code, who’s ultimately responsible for it?… Read the rest

There’s more and more chatter about AI replacing developers. Mark Zuckerberg talks about it often these days, and even Marc Benioff has made more than a few comments about it.

While it’s hard to predict the near future, I’m pretty sure about the state of AI today.… Read the rest

If you haven’t already noticed, Salesforce is really pushing their AI advancements.

Like really pushing.

I believe they started labelling last year’s Dreamforce (their annual conference in San Francisco) as the “largest AI event in the world”. This year was no different.… Read the rest

By now, most of you are aware that TrailblazerDX 2023 is currently underway. This three day conference focuses on Salesforce technical developments. The target audience are developers and architects, although all disciplines can benefit from learning what the “shiny new tools” look like.… Read the rest