Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, we talk to Joshua Birk, Senior Director of Admin Evangelism at Salesforce. Join us as we chat about how Agentforce Vibes can help admins debug code, create documentation, and so much more.

You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Joshua Birk.

What is vibe coding?

Josh has been getting a vibe lately, and it’s not just him. More and more programmers have been adapting their workflows to incorporate AI and give themselves a helping hand. Vibe coding is here to stay, and it’s coming to Salesforce with the release of Agentforce Vibes.

Pair programming, also known as someone looking over your shoulder while you code, is a classic way to get unstuck. Whether you’re missing a semicolon or calling the wrong function, having another set of eyes on your code can make all the difference.

Vibe coding is the same concept, but you’re using AI for that external perspective. With an AI assistant, admins can quickly troubleshoot a wall of code to spot errors or comb through pages of documentation for a key piece of information. And now, that functionality has been built into Salesforce development environments with Agentforce Vibes.

How to get started with Agentforce Vibes

If you’re already a user of VS Code or Code Builder, you already have access to Agentforce Vibes. If you’re running a trial org or developer edition, you may need to download and install the extension.

Like any AI tool, the things you can do with Agentforce Vibes are too many to list. Josh gives the example of product requirements documentation (PRD). PRDs are the encyclopedia of everything going on with a project: requirements, challenges, blockers, key metrics, etc. It’s an essential document for any project, but it’s difficult to create and dense to parse.

Agentforce Vibes can help you with PRDs on both fronts. You can spin up a PRD for a project and get a running start, or go through an existing PRD for whatever information you need. In short, it helps you do more, faster.

AI is a skillset amplifier

“There’s always a question of what skills are admins not going to need in the future of AI,” Josh says. “I don’t know if that’s the right question, because I think it’s all about your skills leveraging AI—not AI taking over your skill set.”

Agentforce Vibes isn’t going to replace a development team, but it can give admins a starting point to collaborate more effectively with them. If you have coding skills, it can help you debug and document. If you’ve built a ton of flows and are worried some might be redundant, it can help you find those.

AI tools like Vibes won’t replace admin skills—they’ll amplify them. Like a calculator in math class, Vibes helps you move faster but still requires foundational knowledge. The key is knowing what to ask, validating results, and using AI as a supportive peer, not a replacement.

Make sure to listen to the full episode for more details about Agentforce Vibes from Josh, and don’t forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast to catch us every Thursday. Until next time!

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Full show transcript

Mike:

This week on the Salesforce Admins podcast, we’re joined by Josh Birk, senior director admin evangelism, and really just all around great explainer of complicated things. Coming off of Dreamforce, there’s a lot of people talking about vibe coding, what it is, where it came from, and why it matters for Salesforce admins. So we’re going to dive into that, along with Agentforce Vibes and how it can change the way that Salesforce admins approach requirements, automation, and even documentation. So you want to give this one a listen to and share it with a few Salesforce admins who maybe are curious about coding in the age of AI. So with that, let’s get Josh on the podcast.

So Josh, welcome back to the podcast.

Josh Birk:

Thanks, Mike. Good to be here.

Mike:

We have so much to talk about. We’re coming off of Dreamforce this year. I feel like we’re heading into one of the busiest Decembers as a Salesforce admin I can remember, because we’re still releasing, upgrading products in this age of AI. But one thing that left Dreamforce that I wanted to talk to you about is I heard a lot about vibe coding.

Josh Birk:

Yeah.

Mike:

And so I want to start there, before we talk about the Salesforce product, and just kind of level set. Because you’re a developer, you’ve built code.

Josh Birk:

I have. I have.

Mike:

I haven’t. I’ve shown you how to add a icon to an application.

Josh Birk:

Famously so, yes.

Mike:

That was my one win in my life. I’ll take that. But this whole idea of vibe coding seems to be taking over tech. Let’s talk about that.

Josh Birk:

Yeah, it is definitely taking over tech. And if you want to think about how blindly fast we’re going right now, I think I first heard the term vibe coding somewhere during this summer.

Mike:

Oh.

Josh Birk:

This time last year, not even a speckle on somebody’s eye. And now it’s really all the rage. So it’s moving. Yeah. Yeah. And the first time I heard it too, my first response was of course, “Well, what are you talking about? What is vibe code?”

Mike:

To be fair, it sounds awesome. Because I totally love tie-dye shirts, I love the 1970s, and I’m sitting around thinking like, “Yeah brother. I am going to get myself a tie-dye t-shirt and we’re going to vibe.”

Josh Birk:

Yeah. Actually, my first response was closer in that vein. I actually thought they meant flow development. Like not flows as in admin development, but when you get into your flow zone kind of thing.

Mike:

Oh yeah. Yeah.

Josh Birk:

I thought, “Oh, is there some cool new way to get into my vibe?”

Mike:

Hey, it’s like that social media movie. That’s what my friends always call it.

Josh Birk:

Yeah.

Mike:

We’re like, “You can’t interrupt him. He’s plugged in.”

Josh Birk:

Exactly.

Mike:

He’s plugged in.

Josh Birk:

It is. And this is a good note for working with your developers. If they have their headphones on, they are probably not willing to talk to you. Just as a reminder out there for feeding and nurturing your developers. So yeah, no. So vibe coding is, as kind of an old school developer, there’s a really interesting paradigm to describe it, which is peer programming. And peer programming was this thing that was kind of… I