alt Hacker News Internal guidance updated in October restricts Anthropic's Claude Code and Microsoft's GitHub to the bank's engineers
Has nothing to do with AI being bad. Good engineers have a mind for it. They tend to be more detailed oriented. Understands how parts connect. Understands the pros and cons of approaches. Can see when the AI does something stupid. Probably knows a better way if the AI veers off.
We don’t ask software engineers to file Goldman Sachs yearly company taxes using just AI right without any expertise right?
We don’t ask engineers to go out and do cold calls for sales right? Engineers don’t have the mind for that. They’d suck at it.
We don’t ask sales people to write programs right? Have you met a sales person? They’re the opposite of builders. They lie, take corners to close a deal. You can’t do that building a real production system.
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> There. Now only devs can use Claude Code. That makes sense.
This hardly makes sense to me. Claude Code is an excellent tool for running your environment and augmenting your productivity. Most traders are sharp folks who could use CC to great effect I am sure. I'd be super annoyed.
It does make sense. But the problem is that no one wants to spend a few trillion dollars on a nice tool for devs. The investors want the magic wish-granting genie they were promised.[1]
1.https://www.the-independent.com/tech/chatgpt-ai-cancer-cure-...
Yeah, this is more likely to not waste engineers time while dipshits vibe code their own "tools" and demand that they are production ready despite being said dipshit.
> Has nothing to do with AI being bad. Good engineers have a mind for it
I never like these kinds of statements because it makes so AI can’t ever be critiqued. You can always go “well that’s a bad engineer.”
Erm why are you so defensive?
There’s plenty of firms out there claiming sales people can create all sorts of productivity apps…
the take away is that Ai enhances expertise rather than making experts out of everyone or replacing them