Goldman Sachs agentic AI cuts bug-fix time from 30 minutes to just 1.5
Goldman Sachs has quietly turned one of Wall Street’s biggest technology bets into a working experiment on the future of software engineering. The bank’s rollout of Goldman Sachs Devin AI tools inside its technology division marks one of the clearest examples yet of a major financial institution handing real production work to an autonomous coding agent, not just a chat assistant that suggests snippets of code. And the early results, according to CIO Marco Argenti, suggest this is only the beginning.
Key takeaways
- Goldman Sachs deployed Devin, an agentic AI software engineer built by startup Cognition, across its technology division in 2025.
- Devin works alongside roughly 12,000 human engineers, autonomously scoping, coding, testing and debugging projects.
- CIO Marco Argenti says Devin performs three to four times better than previous AI tools the bank used.
- One organization using the technology saw vulnerability-fixing time drop from 30 minutes to 1.5 minutes per issue.
- Goldman plans to expand into Anthropic’s Claude in 2026 for trading, transactions and client onboarding.
- Analysts estimate up to 200,000 US banking jobs, many held by junior developers, could be at risk.
Goldman Sachs Deploys Agentic AI Software Engineer Devin
Goldman Sachs became the first major bank to put virtual software engineers to work on real production tasks rather than isolated pilot projects. In 2025, the bank deployed Devin, a tool built by AI startup Cognition, across its technology division, putting hundreds of AI agents to work alongside its roughly 12,000 human engineers and developers.
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