Salesforce Focuses on Enterprise Vibe Coding

Salesforce's Agentforce Vibes aims to assist users in building, debugging, testing, and deploying applications and agents, marking a significant step in accelerating AI-driven coding by software vendors.

Vibe coding has emerged as a prominent approach in AI-powered software development this year, with enterprises rapidly showing interest in testing its capabilities. The concept of developers describing an application and having AI quickly build a prototype is appealing to executives seeking efficiency gains.

Technology leaders from Mondelēz International, Valmark Financial Group, and Gap have begun exploring the benefits of this technology for their teams and determining its limitations.

Vibe coding is praised for lowering the barrier to software creation, though governance controls are lagging behind, as is common with many AI innovations. Gartner researchers warned in a May report about the substantial risks if developers proceed unprepared or use these tools independently.

Salesforce positions its new tools as a way to explore this technique without compromising safety. "Building production-ready business apps with vibe coding is challenging," said Dan Fernandez, VP of Product Management for Developer Services at Salesforce, in a Wednesday announcement. "Unlike traditional vibe coding tools, Agentforce Vibes provides built-in, enterprise-grade security and governance controls."

Other vendors are also working to accelerate the adoption of this software development approach. AWS introduced Kiro, a vibe coding-like tool, in July, and Microsoft recently added "vibe working" to Excel, Word, and other Office apps. Gartner predicts that by 2028, enterprises will use vibe coding to create 40% of new production software.