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Goldman Sachs restricted Claude Code for bankers — but made one surprising exception
Replit CEO Amjad Masad is warning that AI coding agents running on employee devices are becoming a security risk for enterprises and governments, as financial institutions begin restricting access to tools such as Claude Code.
"AI agents running on employee endpoints are becoming a systemic security risk for enterprises & governments," Masad writes on X, Tuesday. "Some are responding by restricting tools like Claude Code, as Goldman Sachs reportedly has." "Some are responding by restricting tools like Claude Code, as Goldman Sachs reportedly has."
Why finance restricts coding agents His comments follow a Bloomberg report that Goldman Sachs has restricted access to Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub coding tools to engineers. The restrictions apply to bankers and traders, but certain quantitative employees known as strats are exempt. Goldman spokesperson Nick Carcaterra told Bloomberg the bank weighs productivity gains against potential risks when deciding which employees can continue using AI tools.
