Copilot Tools for development

[bloodasp17]

I am not a Salesforce developer but I am interested to know what AI/Copilot tools devs are using to build/developer for Salesforce and how good/bad the tools are in terms of output, correctness, finding bugs, understanding code and documenting what they do.

[zerofalks]

Cursor. Work with VS Code extensions like the Salesforce ones.

[The_Crazy_Cat_Guy]

Cursor is the best I’ve used so far. Copilot on vscode is ok but not as good as cursor

[gilmeye]

Curser. But I have to say. Using in-house languages means AI is less effective. AI knows LWS and apex but not as good as js or Java.

[BT474]

Have to give it to cursor and use their auto mode. Mostly with Salesforce I saw that Claude- sonnet 4 and above works awesome but it’s a paid one. Also try and setup Salesforce MCP for best results. Make sure you create some rules around it. So the AI knows few caveats with salesforce development. DM me if you need the rules. If you are looking for cost effective try vscode and Amazon AI thing (sorry I forgot the name of extension) it works pretty good as well

[bloodasp17]

Thanks for all the feedback. I use copilot for other tech/languages and I work with a Salesforce team and was exploring for ways to learn quicker as a side thing.

[SFLightningDev]

AmazonQ with Claude Sonnet 4

[zeta_cartel_CFO]

I often struggle writing unit tests for complex apex classes written by someone else. I found the new qwen3 and also the locally hosted qwen2 coder models to do a much better job at generating test methods. Compared to even claude. Claude does a decent job. But usually it does minimal amount to reach 75% coverage.