Salesforce Will Not Hire More Software Engineers Next Year As Claude Code Compresses Migrations

Salesforce does not plan to add software engineers next year, and the company is pointing to AI coding tools as the reason. Chief executive Marc Benioff said the firm is not adding more software engineers in the coming year because AI has already lifted engineering productivity by more than 30%. The remark, from the leader of one of the largest enterprise-software companies in the world, lands in the middle of an anxious debate about whether AI will shrink technical employment — and it has quickly become a reference point for both sides.

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