The official start of blogging season is here for the 20th year in a row and my goal is to get a high score of 1 post written. I messed around with some AI content generating things you will see around but wanted to give a specific humanoid touch to the occasion of posting my first thing for sale in a shop link and it has been a while of rumination and mental constipation that really never let it take shape. The good news is I decided to become a content hoarder in these years of perilous poor project management in my side projects and I was left with an extensive collection of loose ends.
Well I hit my groove with some of the new technology and the “Agent” way of operating in vscode and it is no secret that my projects just about 50x’d but there is still something synthetic about the AI portion of it that I feel like is within reach every time I get into a prolonged proggin program lately. Regardless the concept of the agent invading a folder that has a half scrapped together script in it and nothing else makes for a headache coming back to it a year later, but the agent AI goes in, figures out what is going on, documents it, and the ecosystem of co pilot models and other claude code like products out there make for an expensive (but not always) little dilemma of productivity.
So full transparency the pros and cons are still being written and shifted day to day on this stuff, it’s too fast, but claude code as of this date June 2025 is an absolute monster with its ability to get a cli command to-do and just absolutely crush the code and delivery of it always lookin bangin’. It still doesn’t feel right when you put time into a nice prompt with all the details and then you goto the built page and it is just not sinking in yet the jump of something that can lay the groundwork for you to blaze on through to whatever you want to do.
I think the future is anyones game here with the options out there, and if Salesforce somehow can manage to leverage some of that ’18 vision on the AgentForce product and really make it behave more like those Manus and Company H agents that just tazmanian devil their way through a set of tasks. Here is some energy AI, go to work reasoning and ruminating and coming up with something…
Flow Orchestrator for us Salesforce people is a good terrible parallel to make to what I really think the new “dev” in the SaaS spaces is gong to be … there will be the people who understand it enough that they can watch what people do and apply the automation and wins to it or setup processes and systems to get these wins going.. and there will be people who know enough to be dangerous and can manage a swarm of agents in increasingly more difficult things, but the cognitive load becomes high on humans to manage that and without a proper due diligence check of the AIs work at this point in the tech is a fools move…. it still can and will just make things up. The Agent paradigm kind of flips this on its head because of how it is tenacious about an answer to its task and the other agents potentially in the mix can serve as QA and a failsafe, so it isn’t to say that the tech is inherently flawed for good. There are time consuming training methods for the data that can make it be reliable more and more across domains and fine tuning vs. prompt embeddings, vs any of the other buzz words around things like zero shot prompting are still being fleshed out.
The good news is it seems like if you can muster up something to tell the AI to do, it will do it. That can be compounded in a good way too by the fact that if you have pieces of an automation puzzle and find one that works in a certain configuration or setup, you can then often use the LLM to swap out a cursory detail about it so that it then potentially solves a pain point that was indirectly but very closely related to the things you may be trying to do for a user currently.
Anyways… some of these aforementioned projects like a Monthly Data Backup Automator in Colab that will use the out of box monthly data backup zip files to headless download the zips to your Google Drive and store your backups safely, all just by running the code cells in the Google Colab document and waiting for the data to download to Drive for the zip files which is all you now have to do. That is a project that came to fruition and I still think colab for salesforce devs and architect is like its own little python capable sandbox that can write its own code and is really a no brainer to keep close as a toolset item.
Link here: https://sfdcboss.com/shop
But for the original point of my post, today marks the inaugural product, youtube video, blog post combined arms fire out of any efforts thus far, and while that is a paid product there will be a lot of things that are related to these topics and becoming a cross platform dev more quickly when going through the salesforce developer path you go through, and try and share some of the cool tech that has pushed me past my comfort zone to learning some obscure things that I think people would be able to make use of. If you got to the point and are reading this all I ask is you stop back in some days and watch as this controlled chaos attempts to be morphed into Salesforce learning material and tips for the masses, or several other potential outcomes like the indecision about what to do with the blog and never posting again, or several other avenues. I don’t think for the base services like pdf generation and backup and things that third party vendors offer in the Salesforce ecosystem have any competition and therefore are stuck in their own whale category of bad customer service and perception from people… Conga was the G.O.A.T. for a while, but now it seems more like a curse when people talk minimum licensing or being maxed out on the extreme other side. Either way I have Cloud Functions and HTML to PDF and AI and so many other working prototypes to try and shuffle out that hopefully this monologue serves as a memorialization that it’s go time.
In closing, check out my stuff:
- https://sfdcboss.com/shop/ – posted Salesforce Backup Automation Tool
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUu0p6j0II – video walk through of the Backup Automation Tool
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu2raHu2Eho – low key sneaking a wave of a chrome extension triple pack that will drop this week… Claude Queue, ChatGPT Queue, and Gemini Queue, that all allow for queueing up of messages in bulk and allowing the web UI And chrome extension to process them in an efficient way allowing for chains and prompt options not before available or feasible, like pasting a 20 prompt list of images to create and coming back to 20 images.
If you are liking the idea of mixing Salesforce with these architectural adventures I implore you to check back and see if we can build the coolest things ever.