Benioff to CEOs: 'Last Time You'll Manage Only Humans' — Agents Define Enterprise Next Decade

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In an Inc. report from the same week as his zero-engineer-hiring disclosure, Benioff told fellow CEOs that this is 'the last time they'll manage only humans,' predicting a permanent structural shift in enterprise workforce composition. Separately, Salesforce's India VP stated that AI agents — not chatbots — will define enterprise technology for the next decade, distinguishing between the conversational AI era (2023-2025) and the autonomous agent era now beginning.