Salesforce Community is dramatic this week

In today’s email:

• Mike Wheeler Drama

• Salesforce Q3

• Amazon Q-Chat for AWS

• From Musician to Senior Salesforce Admin

Read time: 5 minutes

Mike Wheeler

We had a drama going on this week on LinkedIn. A short story of what happened:

1. Mike Wheeler created a post that suggested that flows are too complex and AI will make them obsolete

2. People disagreed heavily in comments

3. Mike deleted post

4. Mike made new videos explaining his thoughts

5. Community disagreed again

6. Mike deleted posts and YouTube videos

Here is what I think - if AI will be able to do flows, it will be able to do most Salesforce jobs as well, e.g. Salesforce Development. We will need to have humans that understand flows in the next 5-10 years for sure.

But here is what I think about the drama itself - it’s hard to bear with disagreement as a creator. I am getting some critiques on my posts as well, and when some important person for me disagrees - it does upset me.

So no matter if you agree or disagree with Mike - don’t be harsh and have understanding ❤️

Salesforce Earnings

Salesforce had another Q3, yeeeeay! Oh wait, but didn’t they just let go 7300+ people? 😄 

I am from Germany and letting go of people here is not as easy as in the US. So for me to hear that a company first fires a bunch of people and then proudly declares profits is… weird.

The whole purpose of business is to earn money, so they can do that. But does it align with the Ohana value?

Amazon Q

Amazon has introduced Amazon Q - ChatGPT specific for AWS products. The price is $20 or $25 per month.

I think it’s an interesting move, and at some point most Software on the internet will have some kind of chat where you can ask software-specific questions or take some actions.

As a Salesforce Developer - you most likely will work with AWS at some point. Mainly, because you can’t perform anything very computing or data-intense in Salesforce. Here is what Amazon Q suggests for cases with Salesforce:

Storing images is indeed a good example of AWS use for Salesforce. If you have thousands of images - you might just run out of space in Salesforce. And in AWS it’s not that expensive for smaller amounts.

Interviewing People

I recently started a podcast (Salesforce Stories) - and I can’t leave this particular story unnoticed. It’s about Artūras Sedleckas, currently a Senior Salesforce Admin, Mentor and group Co-Leader.

But he has spent the last 10 years working as a musician and playing in a band. Can you imagine pivoting your career so drastically after 10 years? I can’t. So I took this interview and the story turned out to be full of struggle, pivots and learning.

I loved the story and I hope you enjoy it too.

P.S. Whom should I interview next?