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Image from DALL-E 3 based on a prompt by Bob Buzzard
Introduction
Einstein for Developers has been out in beta for a while now, built on
CodeGen
- Salesforce's in-house open-source LLM. To date this as been focused on
generating code from natural language prompts, auto-completions. and unit
tests, but now it's time for artificial intelligence to dip a toe into the Dev
Ops space with Ship Happens.
Ship Happens
In keeping with most Generative AI launches, Einstein Dev Ops goes live with a
single feature and the expectation that more will come in a few months. It's
quite the feature though - with Ship Happens, your code will barely have a
chance to touch down in a scratch org before it's flung to production and into
the hands of users.
You've Got to be Shipping Me
Research shows that by far the biggest blocker to getting code into
production is developers accepting that they have finished. While this
sounds like a simple decision, developers can't help polishing - always
looking to squeeze another feature in, or a percentage point of unit test
coverage. Ship Happens unblocks your development team by handing the
decision off to Generative AI.
As development progresses, the code is constantly analysed by a Large
Language Model trained on years of Salesforce deployments, both successful
and unsuccessful, and the quality of code for your specific instance. Once
the LLM decides the code is as good as it's ever going to be, it's committed
to version control and on it's way to production before the developer knows
what has hit them. To ensure full traceability, Ship Happens reuses the same
commit message when it takes the decision to ship a feature - "You've Got to
be Shipping Me".
Welcome to Ship Creek
Crunching the numbers after the pilot program showed that users are delighted
when Ship Happens. An updated experience every time they login, reduced
waiting time for new features, and the oh so familiar bugs they have come to
expect with every release. Once they accept their role under our new AI overlords, your developers will enjoy the freedom to
focus purely on writing code -
with Ship Happens in charge, everyone knows that features will be released
exactly when they should be, not a moment earlier and not a moment later.
Before long, everyone will be happily floating along Ship Creek and forget they were
ever in a different place.
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