The SaaS-pocalypse can wait, Salesforce still has customers where it wants them
AI coding agents may make software cheaper to build, but switching off major platforms remains expensive, risky, and deeply annoying
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff appeared on the VC podcast All-In last week to share his vision for the future ofAI and software. Among the usual bonhomie – he skipped Trump's trip toChina; he's not a Democrat or Republican, just "here to support the country" – herevealed the CRM giant he co-founded may spend circa $300 millionwith Anthropic in 2026 to harness its coding agents.
"Everything's gonna be cheaper to make,it's more efficient," he told the show. "I can do things that I just could not do before. I can gofaster than ever before. I can implement my software and sell it at the sametime. I can break through obstacles that I've had because I have coding agentsand humans working together."
There are other consequences of this rushto the LLM-guzzling...
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