The Developer Keynote at Dreamforce ’24 showcased a plethora of innovative tools for developers to maximize and elevate their use of the Salesforce platform. The keynote focused on four key areas: Delivering Success, Engaging Stakeholders, Automating Solutions, and Building Success.
In this article, we’ll explore the highlights and unveil some of the announcements and features that might have slipped under the radar during Dreamforce ’24. Additionally, we’ll provide insights on how developers can seamlessly incorporate these updates into their work starting today.
1. Three Requirements for Success with AI
Salesforce emphasized three essential factors for achieving success with AI: recognizing the human impact, embracing composable iteration, and adopting the perspective of treating AI as a user.
The concept of treating AI as a user particularly stood out to me, as it hadn’t been a focal point in my thinking until now. However, the idea of considering AI as a user aligns seamlessly with the development cycle. This involves pinpointing distinct roles for AI, collecting relevant requirements, and formulating dedicated AI user stories.
2. Generations API
The utilization of prompts in Salesforce through the Einstein sidebar is a familiar concept. However, there has been limited information on how to harness this capability via Apex. A significant breakthrough in this area was highlighted in the Developer Keynote, showcasing the Generations API. This API empowers developers to integrate prompts directly into their classes. Currently undergoing trials with selected Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), the Generations API is anticipated to be available to the broader community in the upcoming Spring ’24 release.
3. Upcoming Flow Announcements
This year’s Developer Keynotes placed an unprecedented emphasis on Flow, highlighting staggering statistics. Monthly, a remarkable 226 billion record-triggered flows, 38 billion invocable actions, and 1.2 billion screen flows are executed—a testament to the remarkable strides made in enhancing Flow in recent releases.
The Winter ’24 release brings a slew of new features to Flow Builder, including the general availability of Data Cloud-triggered flows, custom error messages, HTTP callouts, and reactive components. Additionally, Winter ’24 marks the pilot launch of Einstein for Flow, while the beta releases of Flow Transform and Flow Repeaters are slated for Spring ’24. These announcements underscore the continuous evolution and significance of Flow in automating processes.
4. Apex Guru
Apex Guru Insights provides tailored and prompt improvements in addressing issues categorized as ‘Critical,’ ‘Major,’ or ‘Minor’ within your instance, potentially impacting performance. These AI-generated suggestions are designed to streamline your workflow, prioritizing best practices. This additional feature is poised to significantly simplify the lives of developers, facilitating the identification and resolution of bugs in their code more efficiently than before.
Summary
The Developer Keynote at this year’s Dreamforce didn’t unveil many surprises, but it did provide a more in-depth understanding of the inner workings of various features. This insight is particularly beneficial for developers, as a clear understanding of the ‘how’ lays the foundation for effective implementation of these features.
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