llustration of two AI agents making changes to the same Salesforce page layout while a green “Deployment Successful” message shows zero errors and warnings, yet the “Related Cases” section is missing—highlighting the hidden risks of shared metadata in agentic development.

The Related List That Disappeared

The Deploy That Looked Clean Two agents, one story: “you handle the flow, I’ll handle the page layout.” Reasonable split — except we hadn’t split the object, we’d split the request. Both agents ended up touching the same page-layout XML in the same run. One added a related list for open cases. The other reordered two fields per a design note from three sprints back. The deploy went out clean. Zero errors, zero warnings. ...

September 28, 2026 · 5 min · Pavan Chavali

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