Submitted by jordan on Sun, 07/12/2026 - 17:00
Every prior generation of advice about Salesforce technical debt described the same disease: years of accreted clicks-not-code, orphaned fields, a trigger per object, and a cleanup project nobody funds. That framing is now obsolete. In an org where agents author most of the metadata, debt no longer accumulates slowly over five years of admin drift — it can accumulate in an afternoon, at production quality, with passing tests. The cleanup metaphor breaks because there is no lull in which to clean up.
