{"id":311681,"date":"2025-04-16T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/?p=311681"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T17:46:36","slug":"salesforce-20-of-all-new-code-is-already-written-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/salesforce-20-of-all-new-code-is-already-written-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce: 20% of All New Code Is Already Written With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/this-ai-already-writes-20-of-salesforces-code-heres-why-developers-arent-worried\/\">Venturebeat did a brief interview with Jayesh Govindarajan, Senior Vice President of Salesforce AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now to some extent, everyone in AI at Big Tech Cos is talking their own game, and that&#8217;s OK.<\/p>\n<h3>But the headline comment Jayesh made is important: &#8220;\u201cAbout 20% of all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.salesforce.com\/docs\/atlas.en-us.apexcode.meta\/apexcode\/apex_intro_what_is_apex.htm\">APEX code<\/a> {Salesforce&#8217;s own code} written in the last 30 days came from {Our AI} Agentforce.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/this-ai-already-writes-20-of-salesforces-code-heres-why-developers-arent-worried\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-311682 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM.png?resize=1000%2C484&#038;quality=70&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"484\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM-980x475.png 980w, https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM-480x232.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/484;\" \/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-311682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM.png?resize=1000%2C484&#038;quality=70&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM-980x475.png 980w, https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM-480x232.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now why this is particularly important is this isn&#8217;t just prototypes, brand new start-ups that can take a lot of risks, or code that doesn&#8217;t have to go through exhausting security and safety reviews.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is code going into production at the world&#8217;s largest enterprise software company (or soon to be), now at $40b+ ARR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; His team tracks not just code generated, <strong>but code actually deployed into production<\/strong>. The numbers reveal an acceleration that\u2019s impossible to ignore: 35,000 active monthly users, 10 million lines of accepted code, and internal tools saving 30,000 developer hours every month.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All the fastest-growing leaders I work with at SaaStr Fund, from Owner to Gorgias to RevenueCat and more, are seeing similar or better numbers.<\/p>\n<p>But they aren&#8217;t shipping super conservative software to the Fortune 100.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>And Salesforce showing they already are at 20% of code shipping into production being AI generated shows AI isn&#8217;t just for prototypes or small features or start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>It will soon likely be 50%+ of code from AI everywhere.\u00a0 In production.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"mNxTXZTlQ9\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/5-interesting-learnings-from-salesforce-at-40-billion-in-arr\/\">5 Interesting Learnings from Salesforce at $40 Billion in ARR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content lazyload\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;5 Interesting Learnings from Salesforce at $40 Billion in ARR&#8221; &#8212; SaaStr\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/5-interesting-learnings-from-salesforce-at-40-billion-in-arr\/embed\/#?secret=VEazWpUy61#?secret=mNxTXZTlQ9\" data-secret=\"mNxTXZTlQ9\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Venturebeat did a brief interview with Jayesh Govindarajan, Senior Vice President of Salesforce AI. Now to some extent, everyone in AI at Big Tech Cos is talking their own game, and that&#8217;s OK. But the headline comment Jayesh made is important: &#8220;\u201cAbout 20% of all\u00a0APEX code {Salesforce&#8217;s own code} written in the last 30&#8230; <br \/><a class=\"more-link fade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/salesforce-20-of-all-new-code-is-already-written-with-ai\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":311682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[24898,31,24987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-blog-posts","category-saastr-ai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM.png?fit=1000%2C484&quality=70&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oib2-1j57","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screen-Shot-2025-04-15-at-8.02.44-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311683,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311681\/revisions\/311683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}