Goldman Sachs reportedly limits Claude Code and GitHub's coding tools to its engineers, cutting off traders and bankers

Goldman Sachs has restricted Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub to its engineers, Bloomberg News reported, citing internal guidance updated in October after a review of productivity and risk concerns. Traders and bankers who had used the tools to track client trading flows, model market moves and positions, and prepare written and graphic material can no longer use them, according to a person familiar with the matter. Strats, who work across trading, quantitative research and software engineering, keep access.

A Goldman spokesperson said only that the bank makes certain AI tools available to staff "to determine the best use cases". The bank's in-house AI assistant, which uses models from several companies, remains available across the firm. The restriction applies to third-party agents that can write and run code themselves.

The article, from the site State of AI, adds that Goldman's chief information officer was still praising non-engineers' "vibe coding" in July, that the bank removed Claude from its internal AI platform for Hong Kong bankers in April (Anthropic said Claude was never officially supported there), and that Goldman and Morgan Stanley are lead underwriters on Anthropic's IPO. These details come from the site's reading of earlier reports. The Hacker News thread had 527 points and 321 comments by the evening of November 8, 2026.