What Is Agentforce Vibes? An Introduction to Salesforce Vibe Coding
Source: Dev.to
Introduction
In February 2025, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” to describe a radical new approach to software development: describe what you want in plain language, and let AI generate the code. His key insight was to “fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.”
Agentforce Vibes is Salesforce’s take on this shift—building by describing intent instead of writing every line of code.
What Is Agentforce Vibes?
Agentforce Vibes is a design‑time AI assistant built directly into the Salesforce ecosystem. You describe what you want to build, and Vibes turns that description into real Salesforce artifacts—Apex classes, Lightning Web Components, and Flows—that appear in your org, show up in your IDE, and move through the same deployment pipelines as any other code.
Example:
You might describe, “Create an Apex class that validates email addresses and returns true if they contain @ and a period after it.” Vibes generates the class with proper error handling, creates a corresponding test class with meaningful assertions, and lets you review both before deployment.
Why Salesforce Is Different
The Salesforce platform is governed by limits, metadata, security rules, and deployment constraints that generic AI coding tools don’t understand. Common pitfalls include:
- Governor limits – A trigger that works with 10 records in a test can hit limits at 201 records in production.
- Bulk processing – AI‑generated SOQL inside a loop may pass unit tests but cause “Too many SOQL queries” errors under real‑world data volumes.
- Security and sharing – Code that ignores sharing rules can violate compliance requirements.
These are not edge cases; they are fundamental constraints that non‑Salesforce AI tools simply don’t grasp.
How Agentforce Vibes Works
- Describe intent – Provide a natural‑language prompt describing the desired functionality.
- AI generation – Vibes produces standard Salesforce components that respect bulk‑processing patterns, governor limits, and security conventions.
- Review & test – The generated code appears in your org and IDE, allowing you to run tests, perform code reviews, and validate against sandboxes.
- Deploy – Treated like any other metadata, the artifacts move through existing DevOps workflows.
Vibes does not bypass governor limits, security rules, or code‑review processes. It accelerates code creation, not code execution.
Limitations and Responsibilities
- Architectural judgment remains essential; Vibes provides a strong first draft, not a final solution.
- Governors, security, and testing are unchanged—generated code must still comply with all platform constraints.
- Human oversight is required to ensure the output aligns with design standards and business requirements.
Treating Vibes as an autopilot will lead to misuse; treating it as an assistive draft yields real value.
Impact on Roles and Development Process
- Developers spend less time on scaffolding and more on solving complex problems.
- Administrators can explore programmatic solutions without starting from a blank editor.
- Architects can prototype ideas quickly before committing to a full design.
The common thread is intent‑first development: more team members can participate earlier, while experienced engineers retain ownership of the final outcome.
What’s Next
In the next article of this series, we’ll make the concept concrete by using Agentforce Vibes to generate a Lightning Web Component from a prompt—showing how a non‑developer can move from idea to UI, and where human judgment still matters.