> Barclays is moving in the other direction

> Barclays said in October that it expects half its developers to be using Claude Code by the end of the year, and three weeks later named developers among 5,000 job cuts. Like Goldman, it is giving coding agents to engineers. Unlike Goldman, it is also using them to reduce how many engineers it employs.

It says nowhere Barclay’s is permitting them to traders, just that they are - like Goldman - permitting them to developers, who they subsequently will be firing enmasse.