Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers
According to Bloomberg, citing internal guidelines from October, Goldman Sachs has cut off most employees from AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub, leaving them available only to engineers. Traders and bankers had used the tools for months to monitor trading flows and create content. A Goldman spokesperson cited a variety of factors including productivity and risk management, saying the experimentation phase is over and the tools are being limited to those best suited to leverage them long term, a rollback reportedly causing frustration inside the firm.
Why it mattersThe report lays out the policy reversal against earlier executive comments and the official explanation, helping readers see where firms draw the line on AI tool access.
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Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its employees from advanced AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub. Only engineers can still use them, according to Bloomberg, citing internal guidelines from October. Traders and bankers had spent months using the tools to monitor trading flows and create content. The rollback is reportedly causing frustration inside the firm.
Back in July, Goldman CIO Marco Argenti praised "vibe coding" by non-technical staff in an interview. A trader or someone in asset management would have an idea, build a quick prototype with AI, and then hand it off to an engineer to scale for production. That's no longer the plan, it seems.
Why the U-turn? Bloomberg's report cites only a "variety of factors including productivity and risk management," according to Goldman spokesperson Nick Carcaterra. He added that the experimentation phase is over, and the firm is now limiting the tools to the people "who are best suited to leverage them for the long term."
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