[scherlock]

Salesforce core is Java. A smattering of other languages in the mix. I left Salesforce a year ago, their main developer productivity drains had nothing to do with the code base. It's their build process where it takes a minimum of a day to get code committed, even with their git on top of perforce hack which is seriously impressive, but still a process smell, that coupled with massive overhead from when dealing with inter team dependencies and various "edicts" getting passed down from on high that blow up any planning.

In short, you could have agents that code at 2x but it would have only a small impact on deliverabkes since non-coding processes have a higher impact on velocity.

[Jach]

I left in 2020 before a bunch of the new dev processes were made and enforced, from what I've heard since the replacements aren't better and at least half sounded insane. Wouldn't surprise me if core teams have lost more than 30% productivity... not to mention all the low morale. AI can maybe claw some back, especially if it helps long-term quality; I'd try to be optimistic on it at least helping get fast "unit" test coverage that doesn't need the world running to execute.

[actuallyalys]

Thanks for the insight! That makes me even more doubtful of the 30 percent claim.