Goldman Sachs bans thousands of employees from using Claude Code and GitHub; company says: After a period of experimentation, we put them in the hands of those...
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Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its staff from advanced AI coding tools, and not everyone at the bank is pleased.
Goldman Sachs has cut off most of its staff from advanced AI coding tools, and not everyone at the bank is pleased. Access to tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub is now limited to engineers, according to internal guidance updated in October and seen by Bloomberg. Traders, bankers and other non-technical employees, many of whom had been using these tools for months, have lost access.
The bank says the call came after it looked at productivity and risk. A Goldman spokesperson, Nick Carcaterra, told Bloomberg that the firm offers certain AI tools to staff so it can figure out where they work best. Once that trial period ends, the tools go "in the hands of those who are best suited to leverage them," he said.
There is one exception. The rule does not apply to strats, Goldman's term for employees who sit between trading, quantitative research and software engineering.
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