Off with Their Heads

In this episode, we discuss John Mulaney's roast of Dreamforce, AgentForce, Klarna's plans to stop using Workday and Salesforce, Illuminated Cloud, and AI-generated podcasts.

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• Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
• SF's Dreamforce conference has a warning about potential widespread layoffs
• (1) Amir Efrati on X: "😀 @Benioff wants to know more about Klarna CEO @klarnaseb's plans to stop using Salesforce & Workday and is not taking the public barbs lying down. from: https://t.co/1KeWvjoHz7 https://t.co/xjihbi7GnL" / X
• Salesforce’s New AI Strategy Acknowledges That AI Will Take Jobs
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Fascinated at the AI enterprise SaaS pricing models: -Salesforce: AI extra charge -Microsoft: AI extra charge -Google: AI extra charge -Adobe: AI extra change -Oracle Fusion: AI included -NetSuite: AI included -Zoho: AI included Oracle, NetSuite, Google, Zoho, Microsoft have" / X
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "My early thoughts so far on the @Benioff keynote today at #DF24. 1/ Agent Force: this is the “next new thing” and the star of the show. These agents look like what you could have expected chatbots and Einstein to do in 2016. It’s all about driving efficiency, revenue and https://t.co/8yGgIAMczB" / X
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Wow @Benioff is in rare form in the post keynote QA. Thrown many expletives against its bigger rival: -science projects -spilling enterprise data everywhere -expensive -not solving real problems -mean people -their solution hallucinates -same pitch for 25 years -they’re DiY https://t.co/UdyZuijRLV" / X
• (1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Diego Rossi Haterz/Loverz Club on X: "Dreamforce Keynote so far has been 44 minutes of trying to convince us their new AI is more than a chatbot, and 6 minutes of Mark Benioff talking about his favorite Disneyland rides" / X
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• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report
• Salesforce Closing Hillsboro, Oregon, Office Amid RTO Push - Business Insider
• Zoom (ZM) to Reduce Stock-Based Compensation for Workers - Bloomberg