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Goldman Sachs executive Kevin Sneader says new finance hires may be managing AI agents from the moment they join, according to Bloomberg. That could shift junior bankers’ work towards supervising automated tasks earlier in their careers, while raising a less comfortable question about what happens to today’s middle managers.
Why it mattersIt is a prediction, not a confirmed Goldman policy or evidence that the change has already happened.
Discuss: Would early-career workers gain useful responsibility from managing agents, or lose the apprenticeship that teaches them how the work is done?
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Watch Desk Update What changedCrypto Briefing adds detail on how Goldman Sachs is using AI agents. It says the bank deployed Cognition’s Devin across a technology division of about 12,000 engineers in 2025, and has since brought Anthropic’s Claude into business functions including trade accounting, compliance and client onboarding.
The report says Goldman has recorded productivity gains of more than 20% in software engineering tasks since introducing agentic AI. That figure is specific to engineering tasks, not evidence of equivalent gains in the other functions where Claude is now deployed.
Goldman CIO Marco Argenti describes the shift as changing what junior staff need to learn: assigning tasks to AI systems and supervising their output. The report also places the effort within OneGS 3.0, an initiative to redesign operations around teams of people and AI agents.
Sources and evidence
- Goldman Sachs’ new hires will manage AI agents from day one - Crypto Briefing: Crypto Briefing reports that Goldman deployed Cognition’s Devin across a technology division of about 12,000 engineers, has deployed Anthropic’s Claude in several business functions, and has seen software engineering productivity gains of more than 20% since introducing agentic AI.
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