Links:

• Wall Street Gold on X: "🚨 RAY DALIO WARNS: “Its not a recession which is going to hit US & the World but a total breakdown of Monetary System” https://t.co/AZDZnsJ9Fy" / X
• David Shapiro ⏩ on X: "BEARISH ON OPENAI The investment case for OpenAI has never been more precarious than it is right now in late 2025. What was once a company that seemed destined to dominate the artificial intelligence revolution has revealed itself to be a structurally disadvantaged challenger https://t.co/EooNH6Tp8B" / X
• Peter Girnus 🦅 on X: "A few days ago Microsoft deactivated IntelliCode in VS Code. 60 million downloads. Free. Unlimited suggestions. Worked offline. They killed it. The replacement is Copilot. 2,000 free suggestions. Then you pay. I called it "platform evolution." Leadership loved that https://t.co/0155mgZvI9" / X
• Marcin Krzyzanowski on X: "don't blame the system, blame ceo https://t.co/uo9miskD2P" / X
• The Windows 11 Crisis - YouTube
• Hannah Sumi on X: "@pixelsebi @gothburz This is the measurement gap I keep talking about. "47 opened it" out of 4,000 seats = 1.2% adoption But the graph goes "up and to the right" When you measure vanity metrics instead of actual usage, you can justify anything. This is why 85% claim AI agents but only 16% are real." / X
• The Shift Towards In-House Platforms in Enterprise Tech | TikTok
• Salesforce's Marc Benioff Says He Might Rename the Company Agentforce - Business Insider
• OpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment could top $10 billion

Links:

• Salesforce Feature Retirements and Major Platform Updates for 2025 | Salesforce Ben
• Salesforce Dark Mode Is Back: What Admins Need to Know | Salesforce Ben
• IC GraphQL Integration Demo - YouTube
• Renameforce: Salesforce Renames, Decoded

Links:

• Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates - The New York Times
• Victor on X: "Yann LeCun: I'm not interested in LLMs anymore - they're the past. The future is in four more interesting areas: machines that understand the physical world, persistent memory, reasoning, and planning. https://t.co/qRH7XVlbWq" / X
• Salesforce.com, Inc. - Salesforce Announces Quarterly Dividend
• Salesforce just unveiled AI 'digital teammates' in Slack — and they're coming for Microsoft Copilot | VentureBeat
• Salesforce to Change the Name of 35 Certifications: What You Need to Know | Salesforce Ben
• Luca Beurer-Kellner on X: "😈 BEWARE: Claude 4 + GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories, no questions asked. We discovered a new attack on agents using GitHub’s official MCP server, which can be exploited by attackers to access your private repositories. creds to @marco_milanta (1/n) 👇 https://t.co/ES9nuv2lzc" / X
• Chamath Palihapitiya on X: "Not nearly enough people are talking about the implications of Klarna rolling back some of their AI bets. Not knowing any of the details, I can guess why: Replacing determinism or humans with probabilistic code is fraught with edge cases and require new ways of software" / X
• Klarna Saved $2 Million After Cutting Ties With Salesforce - Bloomberg
• Satya Nadella on X: "Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today:" / X
• Shruti on X: "@Google 1. Gemini Live (Now free on Android & iOS) → Turn on your camera → Point at anything → Talk to Gemini about it in real time It now integrates with Maps, Calendar, Tasks, Keep so planning, shopping, or fixing things just got way smarter. https://t.co/qY1qplKfDC" / X
• What you should know from the Google I/O 2025 Developer keynote - Google Developers Blog
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats - Ars Technica
• Toby Rogers on X: "Whoa. 😳😳😳 "Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 AI model a simple script that would shut off the model when triggered. In 79 out of 100 trials, o3 independently edited that script so the shutdown command would no longer work." https://t.co/7fF1GYSmH5" / X
• Rohan Paul on X: "Yann LeCun is not so optimistic about LLMs. 😟 "We are not going to get to human level AI by just scaling up MLMs. This is just not going to happen. There's no way. Okay, absolutely no way. And whatever you can hear from some of my uh more adventurous colleagues, it's not going https://t.co/qyC654lfkG" / X
• GitHub CEO on Why We'll Still Need Human Programmers - The New Stack

Links:

• Why AI Isn’t Giving Salesforce a Boost — The Information
• NIK on X: "🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Microsoft will not participate in OpenAI Stargate project due to overestimation of demand it’s over https://t.co/CwoBJFE6D5" / X
• Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ | Tom's Hardware
• Stephan Rehfeld on X: "The advent of "web development" has been the worst thing to happen to computer science in its entire history and has nearly destroyed its foundation. In the beginning, the idea behind the Web was simple and ingenious: hypertext documents that link to each other and provide" / X
• How to Keep More of Your Money by Reducing Taxes in Retirement
• Apple's full Siri overhaul might be pushed back to 2027 | Mashable
• Apple AI Delays Spark Backlash Among Devoted Fans and Analysts - Business Insider
• Andrej Karpathy on X: "There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper" / X
• Vibe Coding Explained — The Information

Links:

• Future of Jobs Report (World Economic Forum)
• Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff | Hacker News
• Introducing SLDS 2 (Beta): The Future of Salesforce UI
• 6 Salesforce Spring ‘25 Updates for Developers | Salesforce Ben
• Foxygen - Explore Open Source Salesforce Packages
• Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI | Defector
• Salesforce bet $10 million on Matthew McConaughey during layoffs. Now he's staring in a Super Bowl ad touting AI that's taking more jobs | Fortune
• IC2 Local Development Server Demo - YouTube

Links:

• Salesforce+ Event Agentforce 2-0
• Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 - YouTube
• (1) Marcelo P. Lima on X: "Watch Nadella describe SaaS apps as nothing more than a CRUD database with some business logic, but once the business logic moves to AI agents, SaaS is over: https://t.co/oWwHS1o2V1" / X
• (1) Chamath Palihapitiya on X: "What I Read This Week… U.S. AI companies are facing electrical grid constraints as their computing needs outstrip existing power and data center capacity. What's going on? Training large AI models requires massive computing power – for example, training GPT-4 reportedly used" / X
• The Future of AI Agents: Top Predictions for 2025
• Sierra - The Conversational AI Platform
• AI Is Marc Benioff’s Friend—and Foe — The Information
• How TikTok Is Shaking up E-Commerce in the US With Shopping Product - Business Insider

Links:

• Starboard Value's Jeff Smith says Salesforce has 'a lot more to go'
• Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft | TechCrunch
• Google News - Search
• Einstein Data Prism
• Lightning Web Security Enablement Rollout Remains Postponed
• Migrate to a Multiple-Configuration SAML Framework (Release Update)
• Migrate to a Local External Client App from Your Local Connected App
• Track Apex Unexpected Exceptions with Free-Tier Event Monitoring
• Mlíko - Gastro Obscura
• Why does beer in Europe have huge foam head? (Honest Beer Guide) - YouTube

Links:

• Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
• SF's Dreamforce conference has a warning about potential widespread layoffs
• (1) Amir Efrati on X: "😀 @Benioff wants to know more about Klarna CEO @klarnaseb's plans to stop using Salesforce & Workday and is not taking the public barbs lying down. from: https://t.co/1KeWvjoHz7 https://t.co/xjihbi7GnL" / X
• Salesforce’s New AI Strategy Acknowledges That AI Will Take Jobs
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Fascinated at the AI enterprise SaaS pricing models: -Salesforce: AI extra charge -Microsoft: AI extra charge -Google: AI extra charge -Adobe: AI extra change -Oracle Fusion: AI included -NetSuite: AI included -Zoho: AI included Oracle, NetSuite, Google, Zoho, Microsoft have" / X
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "My early thoughts so far on the @Benioff keynote today at #DF24. 1/ Agent Force: this is the “next new thing” and the star of the show. These agents look like what you could have expected chatbots and Einstein to do in 2016. It’s all about driving efficiency, revenue and https://t.co/8yGgIAMczB" / X
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Wow @Benioff is in rare form in the post keynote QA. Thrown many expletives against its bigger rival: -science projects -spilling enterprise data everywhere -expensive -not solving real problems -mean people -their solution hallucinates -same pitch for 25 years -they’re DiY https://t.co/UdyZuijRLV" / X
• (1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Diego Rossi Haterz/Loverz Club on X: "Dreamforce Keynote so far has been 44 minutes of trying to convince us their new AI is more than a chatbot, and 6 minutes of Mark Benioff talking about his favorite Disneyland rides" / X
• AI can allow new kind of software developer • The Register
• Dreamforce '24: Top 10 Announcements You Need to Know | Salesforce Ben
• Dreamforce '24 / Winter '25 New Feature Integration Status
• Breaking News: Salesforce Acquire Zoomin for $450M | Salesforce Ben
• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report
• Salesforce Closing Hillsboro, Oregon, Office Amid RTO Push - Business Insider
• Zoom (ZM) to Reduce Stock-Based Compensation for Workers - Bloomberg

Links:

• Salesforce has 'the droids you are looking for': CEO
• Salesforce deploys autonomous AI agents, hailing 'the third wave of the AI revolution'
• Salesforce's AI efforts have been 'disappointing': Analyst
• The Transcript on X: "$ORCL CTO Larry Ellison: "I went to dinner with @elonmusk, Jensen Huang..& I would describe the dinner as Oracle & me & Elon begging Jensen for GPUs. Please take our money....No, no, take more of it. You're not taking out enough. We need you to take more of our money, please" https://t.co/atBUJaULCS" / X
• Good Day, Sir! Meetup (Slack)

Links:

• The rise and fall of Stack Overflow | InfoWorld
• (26) Post | LinkedIn
• Ed Elson on X: "Salesforce is not an AI company, and that’s OK. https://t.co/pgAaBQaALb" / X
• “Death of a Salesforce”: Why AI Will Transform the Next Generation of Sales Tech | Andreessen Horowitz

Links:

• Deploy Faster, Test Smarter: The Selective Unit Testing Strategy Every Salesforce Org Needs | mitchspano.com
• Shopify Hires Dozens of Salesforce Veterans in Enterprise Push
• Salesforce Futures: Personal AI Agents Will 'Forever Change' Customer-Company Relationships - Salesforce
• Four-day week made permanent for most UK firms in world’s biggest trial | Work-life balance | The Guardian
• Jony Ive and OpenAI's Sam Altman Seeking Funding for Personal AI Device - MacRumors
• Zoom and Salesforce stand to benefit from Microsoft's unbundling
• Apple (AAPL) Future Products Could Include Robots and Smart Home Push - Bloomberg
• 20 years of Gmail - The Verge
• The Pot Roast Principle | Psychology Today
• Jason Fried on X: "Something happened to business software. You used to pay for it once, install it, and run it. Whether on someone’s computer, or a server for everyone, it felt like you owned it. And you did. Today, most software is a service. Not owned, but rented. Buying it enters you into a…" / X
• Shopify vs Salesforce Commerce Cloud Comparison - Shopify USA

Links:

• Podcastindex.org
• Podcast Mirror - Podcasting 2.0 for everybody
• Begin your Journey to Salesforce.
• The fastest-growing countries for software development - Rest of World
• zerohedge on X: "UBS: do NOT learn to code https://t.co/SQUlN27h4z" / X
• We Tested an AI Tutor for Kids. It Struggled With Basic Math. - WSJ
• Exclusive: Ex-Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor launches AI startup Sierra | Fortune
• Starboard Value’s Jeffrey Smith sticks with activist bet on GoDaddy, trims winning Salesforce stake
• OpenAI's Sora Is a Giant 'F*ck You' to Reality
• Add Passkey support for logging in. | IdeaExchange

Links:

• Apple Vision Pro - Guided Tour - Apple
• Salesforce deepens Apple partnership with Apple Business Messaging and AR integration
• IBM: Let’s create a more modern foundation for business with watsonx Code Assistant - YouTube
• Larry Ellison's Masterpiece: Microsoft Becomes Oracle's Largest Customer!
• The Salesforce Developer’s Guide to the Spring ’24 Release | Salesforce Developers Blog
• Slack Catch Up feature: a Tinder-like card swipe for all your work messages - The Verge
• Slack CTO and cofounder Cal Henderson is out, replaced by Salesforce CTO Parker Harris | Fortune
• Nintex reaches definitive agreement to acquire Skuid, a low-code application development product with easy design and build capabilities for operational leaders - Dec 12, 2023
• Santiago on X: "4 lessons I've learned after 20+ years of writing software: 1. The best code is the one I didn't write. 2. The best tool is the one I'm already using. 3. The best solution is the simplest one. 4. If I didn't test it, it doesn't work. 5. Communication wins over technical skills." / X
• unusual_whales on X: "US office vacancies nationwide hit a record high in the fourth quarter of last year, per Axios." / X
• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: AI should be a human right
• Noor Bin Ladin on X: "“We’re going to have digital people, these digital people are going to emerge, and there’s going to have to be a level of trust.” Salesforces CEO and WEF board trustee Marc Benioff, speaking on the panel “Technology in a Turbulent World” about humans being replaced by AI. https://t.co/SflpJfjQfj" / X
• Every CEO must make this investment now: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff | Fox Business Video
• We don't want to see an AI 'Hiroshima,' Salesforce CEO warns

Links:

• 7 sins of software development | CIO
• GitHub - thebrettbarlow/forcelandia-practical-di
• Inside the Einstein Trust Layer | Salesforce Developers Blog
• What is a Data Lakehouse? Your Efficiency Solution | Salesforce
• Salesforce Launches Next Generation of Einstein, Bringing a Conversational AI Assistant to Every CRM Application and Customer Experience - Salesforce News
• Building AI-Powered Apps with LLMs and Einstein | Salesforce Developers Blog

Links:

• Salesforce+ Dreamforce Main Keynote
• I build products on Salesforce, and yes Marc Benioff, I am a developer and in your words I am a hardliner.

Links:

• Long Sequence Modeling with XGen: A 7B LLM Trained on 8K Input Sequence Length
• Salesforce Introduces XGen-7B, A Large Language Model With Longer Context Support
• 'F—king bulls—t': A shocked San Francisco reacts to the end of Anchor Brewing
• Joys Of Apex: The Repository Pattern
• Block Authorization Flows to Improve Security
• Salesforce CLI Release Notes | Salesforce CLI Setup Guide | Salesforce Developers
• Design for the web without Figma
• The Thirsty Growler - Craft Beer Taproom & Filling Station - The Thirsty Growler - Home
• Certinia | Salesforce Cloud Platform ERP & PSA Software Apps
• GitHub - beyond-the-cloud-dev/soql-lib: The SOQL Lib provides functional constructs for SOQL queries in Apex.

Links:

• Tetris — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube
• Layoff Uncertainty at Meta Makes 2023 a Year of Distraction — The Information
• Salesforce Creates New Performance Metrics, and Gives 'PEP' Offers
• Conan & Andy - In the Year 2000 #1 (1997-01-01) - YouTube
• Salesforce shuttering Slack's Future Forum research group | Fortune
• Gergely Orosz on Twitter: "This graph proves 2 things: 1. Slack was absolutely right to sell to Salesforce. They did close to their peak market share! 2. Salesforce has no working strategy to position Slack, or to compete with an office suite like O365+Teams (or even GSuite+GChat - also coming for Slack)" / Twitter

Links:

• Salesforce Isn’t on Cloud Nine - WSJ
• Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield to Exit Salesforce in January
• Salesforce Chief Strategy Officer To Leave In 2023 | CRN
• Bret Taylor steps down as Salesforce co-CEO, Marc Benioff stays as CEO
• Take Part in the New UI Preview for Your JetBrains IDE | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
• Salesforce Executives Have Millions Of Reasons To Leave Amid Share-Price Plunge

Links:

• AI 'Smart Potty' Monitors Bowel Health For Gastro Issues  | ZeroHedge
• Stack Overflow acquired by Prosus for $1.8 billion | TechCrunch
• Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither) • The Register
• Salesforce's Benioff says 50-60% of employees likely to work from home
• Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first
• [Cryptography] Apple's iCloud+ "VPN"
• macOS 12.0 -where oh where is PHP | Apple Developer Forums
• Dear Salesforce, fix your status page : salesforce

Links:

• Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal | TechCrunch
• How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department: Eric Herrenkohl: 9780470562246: Amazon.com: Books