Artificial Intelligence
Goldman Sachs limits AI coding tools to engineers
Goldman Sachs restricted advanced AI coding tools to engineers after previously letting traders and bankers use them, with the bank citing productivity and risk management for the change.
- Goldman Sachs cut most employees off from advanced AI coding tools, leaving engineers with access.
- The tools included Anthropic’s Claude Code and GitHub, according to the article.
- Bloomberg, citing internal guidelines from October, said traders and bankers had used the tools to monitor trading flows and create content.
- In July, Goldman CIO Marco Argenti had praised non-technical staff using AI to build prototypes.
- Goldman spokesperson Nick Carcaterra said the firm had moved past the experimentation phase and was limiting access for productivity and risk management reasons.
Goldman Sachs restricted most employees from advanced AI coding tools, keeping access for engineers only, according to Bloomberg and internal guidelines from October. The tools named in the report included Anthropic’s Claude Code and GitHub.
Bloomberg said traders and bankers had been using the tools to watch trading flows and produce content. The report also said the change had prompted frustration within the firm.
In July, Goldman chief information officer Marco Argenti had spoken positively about non-technical staff using AI to sketch out prototypes. He said those ideas could then be passed to engineers for production-scale work.
Goldman spokesperson Nick Carcaterra said the bank had cited a range of reasons, including productivity and risk management. He said the firm was now limiting the tools to employees best placed to use them over the long term.
Named in this story
People
- Marco Argenti
- Goldman Sachs chief information officer who had praised non-technical use of AI
- Nick Carcaterra
- Goldman Sachs spokesperson who explained the restriction
Companies
- Goldman Sachs
- restricted access to advanced AI coding tools
- Anthropic
- supplied Claude Code
- Microsoft
- owned GitHub
Products and systems
- Claude Code
- one of the AI coding tools Goldman Sachs cut off
- GitHub
- one of the AI coding tools Goldman Sachs cut off
How the source tells it
The piece is mostly straight news, but it adds a mild sense of reversal and internal tension through the U-turn framing and the claim of frustration inside Goldman Sachs.
- reversal the change is presented as a sharp turn away from an earlier policy shift
- frustration an internal emotional response is asserted without detailed sourcing