Mark M

Salesforce wizard, IT Nerd, AI junkie
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The Salesforce UI era is quietly ending.
With Salesforce doubling down on APIs, Agentforce, Data Cloud, composable architecture, and headless experiences, the interface matters far less than the intelligence layer sitting on top.
This changes everything.
The old way of building on Salesforce:

Visualforce pages
Lightning components
Complex packaging
AppExchange distribution headaches
Heavy frontend development inside the platform

The new way:

Build beautiful, modern React apps
Create intelligent AI copilots
Launch sleek admin dashboards
Deliver external customer portals
Build powerful automation assistants

…using Cursor + Next.js + Supabase + OpenAI + Salesforce APIs.
Salesforce is no longer fighting to be the frontend. It’s becoming what it was always meant to be: the ultimate backend business engine.
This is one of the biggest platform shifts in enterprise software right now.
The developers who understand this transition will have a massive advantage in the next 3–5 years.
Who else is seeing this shift? Are you still building everything inside Salesforce, or are you embracing the headless + AI-first approach?
Drop your thoughts below 👇
#Salesforce #Agentforce #DataCloud #React #AI #Headless #EnterpriseTech #Developer

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Too Many Manual Tasks

Most small businesses don’t realize how much time gets wasted on repetitive Salesforce tasks.

Things like:

manually creating follow-ups
copying customer notes
assigning leads
updating statuses
sending reminder emails

These should be automated.

Even saving 10 minutes per employee per day adds up fast over a year.

A simple Salesforce Flow can eliminate hours of repetitive admin work every week.

#Salesforce #SmallBusiness #CRM #Automation #AI

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@AIandDesign It was supposed to be a world fair that lasted a year out in Iowa but somehow we ended up with what’s starting to appear more like a political rally not what any of us want

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It’s the government that drove U.S. higher education costs through the roof with easy loans, subsidies, and regulations — making college unaffordable for many Americans. At the same time, public K-12 education has declined in quality despite massive spending. Meanwhile, countries like India heavily emphasize STEM, keep costs low, and produce large numbers of motivated, skilled graduates.
Rather than fixing the root problems in American education and affordability, policymakers let companies import H-1B talent to compete directly with U.S. workers. If they truly cared about American competitiveness, they’d reform education so the U.S. could develop its own talent on a level playing field

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@Kyrannio now use memes to make images they get pretty funny

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I need to find some Salesforce work

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@AIandDesign @WayneWaldropW Voting doesn't even matter anymore it's rigged on whoever they decide to put in office.

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Stopped by In-N-Out Burger on the way back from Dollywood. It tasted like every other burger place.

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In Tennessee, self-defense kicks in against a punch, but deadly force (like drawing or firing a gun) usually does not for a single punch alone. It depends on the full circumstances, reasonableness, proportionality, and whether you escalated first. Here’s the breakdown based on Tennessee Code § 39-11-611.
Non-Deadly Force (Pushing, Hitting Back, etc.)
• You can use reasonable force (up to but not exceeding what’s needed) if you reasonably believe it’s immediately necessary to protect against the other person’s unlawful force (like a punch).
• No duty to retreat if you’re lawfully present and not committing a felony/Class A misdemeanor.
• A punch is unlawful force, so you can defend with comparable force (e.g., fight back to stop the assault).
Deadly Force (Gun, Knife, etc.)
Deadly force is justified only if all these are met:
• You have a reasonable belief of imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury (not just pain or a minor fight).
• That belief is honest and founded on reasonable grounds.
• The force is necessary and proportional — you can’t escalate to lethal unless the threat does.
A single punch rarely meets the “serious bodily injury” threshold by itself. Examples where it might:
• The puncher is much larger/stronger and continuing to beat you (e.g., stomping, head strikes while you’re down, multiple attackers).
• You have a known vulnerability (e.g., prior injuries, disability) that makes even one punch life-threatening.
• The punch escalates into something clearly deadly (e.g., they grab a weapon, choke you unconscious, etc.).
Courts/juries look at the totality: video, witnesses, your actions before/after, disparity of force, and whether you were the initial aggressor or escalator.
Key Limits in Tennessee
• You can’t be the aggressor/escalator: If you reach for a gun during words/taunts (even if they punch after), prosecutors can argue you introduced deadly force first — weakening or killing your self-defense claim. The other person’s punch could then be seen as a response to your threat.
• Proportionality matters: “He hit me first” doesn’t automatically green-light shooting. Many fistfights don’t justify guns.
• Stand Your Ground helps, but only if the above elements are satisfied. It removes any duty to run away — it doesn’t expand when deadly force is allowed.
In the Eatherly (“Chud”) Context
The arrest warrant says Eatherly bladed up and reached for his gun during the verbal argument, then the physical fight/punch happened. That’s why authorities charged him with attempted homicide etc. and treated Fox as the victim so far — they view Eatherly as escalating a non-deadly situation into a lethal one. If full video shows a sustained beating after a punch (with Eatherly reasonably fearing serious harm without having reached first), self-defense could still work at trial. But the timeline hurts him. Preliminary hearing is May 26 — more details expected then.
Practical takeaway: A punch gives you the right to defend yourself physically and disengage. Pulling a gun (or firing) is a high bar — juries and DAs scrutinize it heavily in public fistfight-turned-shooting cases. Always best to avoid/de-escalate if possible, and consult a lawyer for specifics. Laws vary by exact facts; this isn’t legal advice.

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It’s said chud drew the firearm before taking any punches. On top bullets ricochet off walls. Seems like he just started blasting into a crowd not even being aware of his target or what’s around behind it. Plus internet history basically stating he was going to kill a black person. I don’t see anyway he doesn’t do some sort of time. Have to wait for more information to come out

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@GBNT1952 It’s being stated Eatherly reached for the firearm before an altercation happened. If that is true self defense may be harder to prove.

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@unlimited_ls Grok says 10-25% range for a complete “beat the charges with zero jail time” outcome (full acquittal or dismissal on everything, no conviction, no time served).

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@coding_adrian I gave up on it

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What's up with trying to get a Reddit api key? I keep getting some error everytime I hit create app after doing captcha

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@LauraPowellEsq But has weed consumption increased or are they just not drinking and doing drugs

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@LinusEkenstam Feel like only political content and rage bait is what gets pushed

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Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO: "It even runs large language models" — a $249 AI computer that fits on your desk.

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@TechOperator I've never seen so many busted USB-A ports in my life until I started doing IT. Seems to be if it doesn't want to go in just push and twist.

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Salesforce Headless 360: The Future of CRM is API-First & Agent-First
Salesforce just dropped one of its biggest platform shifts in years.
Announced at TrailblazerDX in April 2026, Headless 360 turns the entire Salesforce ecosystem into a fully programmable, headless platform. Translation? You no longer need the traditional Salesforce Lightning UI to get work done.
What “Headless” Actually Means Here
It separates the backend (data, logic, workflows, Agentforce AI agents, Customer 360) from the frontend. Everything becomes accessible via:
•Powerful APIs
•MCP Tools (Model Context Protocol for AI agents)
•The sf CLI
Developers, AI coding agents, and runtime agents can now build, deploy, automate, and interact with your Salesforce org from anywhere — terminals, IDEs, Slack, WhatsApp, custom apps, voice interfaces, you name it.
The 3 Big Pillars of Headless 360
1Developer Superpowers
Over 60 new MCP tools and 30+ coding skills let AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) fully manage your org without ever logging into Salesforce.
2Any Experience, Anywhere
Deliver rich Salesforce-powered experiences on any surface your customers and employees actually use — no forcing them into Lightning.
3Enterprise-Grade Governance
Built-in testing, observability, guardrails, and controls so agents operate safely at scale.
Why This Matters
We’re moving from “log into Salesforce” to “Salesforce works invisibly in the background.”
This is a massive step toward the agentic enterprise — where AI handles the heavy lifting while humans engage through their preferred channels.
For developers and architects: faster builds, less UI friction, more innovation.
For businesses: embed intelligent CRM capabilities anywhere your ecosystem lives.
Headless 360 positions Salesforce as true infrastructure rather than just another app you open in a browser.

#Salesforce #Headless360 #Agentforce #CRM #SalesforceDevelopers #AI #FutureOfWork

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Big move: U.S. Air Force & Space Force just inked a $72M Enterprise License Agreement with Salesforce to consolidate fragmented systems onto one interoperable platform.
Part of the DoD’s massive $5.6B contract (now under the rebranded Department of War), the deal brings Missionforce tech to modernize personnel management, boost situational awareness, streamline logistics, and accelerate AI deployment—including Agentforce for agentic AI.
From recruitment to real-time decision-making at the edge, this gives Airmen & Guardians a unified mission view and next-gen capabilities.
“Digital foundation for an agentic enterprise.” - Salesforce

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A Record Snapshot Merge Field can be added to a prompt template to ground it with data available on the running user's page layout for an object. It is an efficient method of grounding a template with relevant data visible to the running user.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is used to ground prompt templates with unstructured text sources organized in a vector database, such as knowledge articles, emails, and chat transcripts. Retrievers are created and activated in Einstein Studio.

An Apex merge field is used to add an Apex class to a prompt template for a complex use case that requires a programmatic approach, such as returning data from a SOQL query or external API, generating well-formatted JSON, or programmatic data filtering.