Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from bankers and traders, limits them to engineers
Goldman Sachs has taken advanced AI coding tools away from most of its bankers and traders. Under internal guidance updated in October and reported by Bloomberg on November 2, Anthropic’s Claude Code and Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot are now limited to the bank’s roughly 12,000 engineers, out of a workforce of about 47,000. Don’t mistake this for a firm turning its back on AI. Goldman still runs its own AI assistant for every employee, and it still uses Claude heavily behind the scenes. What changed is who gets to hand a coding agent a task and let it run. ...