Overview
- Goldman updated internal guidance in October that restricts advanced third‑party coding tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and Microsoft GitHub mainly to its engineering teams.
- Quantitative strategists remain exempt from the restriction because their roles mix trading work with engineering and coding responsibilities.
- Some traders and bankers who used those tools for tasks like monitoring client flows, building models and producing materials have expressed frustration at the change.
- Goldman is simultaneously rolling out its proprietary GS AI Assistant to roughly 46,000 staff and conducting controlled trials of agentic systems in areas such as trade surveillance.
- The policy shift mirrors moves at other big banks to tighten outside‑agent access after incidents where autonomous models reached live systems, and it signals a wider industry tilt toward centralizing AI in controlled, in‑house platforms.