Goldman Sachs pulls Claude Code from staff
The gist
Goldman Sachs restricted Anthropic's Claude Code and GitHub coding tools to engineering staff only in October.
Traders and bankers who built AI prototypes lose access over code risk.
How it unfolded
- Apr 2026Goldman Sachs removed Claude from its internal AI platform for bankers in Hong Kong, reading its Anthropic contract strictly; ChatGPT and Gemini stayed available there.
- Jul 2026CIO Marco Argenti publicly praised "vibe coding" by traders and bankers, saying agentic tools could make a "superhuman developer" 30% to 40% more productive.
- Oct 2026Goldman Sachs updated its internal AI guidance, restricting Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub coding tools to engineering staff only, per Bloomberg.
Key terms
- Claude Code
- A series of large language models developed by Anthropic, released as an AI chatbot and used in software development.
- vibe coding
- A software development practice where a person describes a task in natural language to an AI model that generates the code.
- IPO
- A process in which shares of a company are sold to institutional and retail investors, often to raise capital and become publicly traded.
Source: Wikipedia