Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says that the company has “almost not hired engineers” over the past two years, citing the rise of AI coding agents that have dramatically changed how software is built. According to a report by Business Insider, speaking on quarterly earnings call, Benioff revealed that the Salesforce’s engineering workforce has remained ‘mostly flat’ at around 15,000 engineers since 2024.

Marc Benioff discusses the role in Salesforce that AI agents are yet to be able to replace, and it's not that of an engineer.

Salesforce-CEO Marc Benioff setzt bei der Softwareentwicklung schon länger auf KI-Agenten. Entsprechend wenig Interesse hat der Konzern an neuen Programmierer:innen. Einen Bereich…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed that the $145 billion firm is keeping its engineering team slim thanks to AI—but has good news for sales workers.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff revealed that the $145 billion firm is keeping its engineering team slim thanks to AI—but has good news for sales workers.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says that the company has “almost not hired engineers” over the past two years, citing the rise of AI coding agents that have dramatically changed how…

Salesforce says it moved its entire dev org to Anthropic's Claude Code with no token limits and reports massive productivity gains for April 2026: 79 percent more pull requests…