Salesforce ships higher-quality code across 20,000 developers with Cursor

Salesforce's adoption of Cursor, an AI tool, has significantly transformed its software development process, leading to substantial improvements in code quality and velocity. With over 90% of Salesforce's engineers using Cursor daily, the tool has been instrumental in helping both junior and senior engineers enhance their productivity, with the former benefiting from better understanding of existing code and the latter from automating tedious tasks. This widespread adoption has allowed Salesforce to achieve double-digit gains in key metrics such as cycle time, quality, and throughput, while also reducing legacy code coverage time by 85%. Despite ongoing challenges in code review and maintaining trust in AI-generated code, the integration of AI into various stages of the software development lifecycle has already begun reshaping Salesforce's approach to building and maintaining software, with expectations for further transformation in the future.