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Goldman Sachs restricts access to AI coding tools to engineers

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According to Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs has restricted access to Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to engineers only. Traders and bankers who had used them for months to experiment lost access, for productivity and risk-management reasons.

According to Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs has restricted access to advanced AI coding tools – Claude Code from Anthropic and GitHub Copilot from Microsoft – to engineers only. Internal guidance from October, described by Bloomberg, states that traders and bankers who had used these tools for months to monitor trading flows and create content lost access to them. According to sources inside the company, this restriction is causing frustration.

As recently as July, Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti praised so-called "vibe coding" in an interview – the practice in which a non-technical employee (for example a trader or an asset management worker) comes up with an idea, uses AI to create a quick prototype, and then hands it off to an engineer to be developed for production deployment. Apparently, this is no longer the company's plan.

Goldman Sachs spokesperson Nick Carcaterra told Bloomberg that the decision was driven by "a number of factors including productivity and risk management." He added that the experimentation phase has ended and the company is now limiting the tools to the people "best equipped to use them for the long term."

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Why it matters

The case shows how a large financial company, after a phase of broad experimentation with generative AI among non-technical employees, tightened controls and concentrated access only among specialists – a signal for other companies considering similar "vibe coding" initiatives outside the IT department.

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For a business

A company that allowed non-technical employees free access to AI coding tools restricted access to engineers after several months of experimentation, citing productivity and risk-management reasons – showing that broad rollout of such tools without rules can lead to a swift tightening.

Risks and compliance
What to decide Consider whether employees' experimentation with AI tools outside of IT is taking place with a sufficient risk-management framework before it becomes a permanent practice.
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The Decoder (daily AI news) independent context · first detected Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers