Agents in the Wild

Goldman Sachs pilots Devin as an AI engineer next to its 12,000 developers

Goldman Sachs started a pilot with Cognition's Devin. The tech chief said the bank could run hundreds and later thousands of Devin instances on tasks like moving code to newer languages, under human supervision.

Organization
Goldman Sachs
Industry
Banking
When
Jul 2025
Evidence
Press report
Agents and tools
Devin

Reported outcome

Pilot started with plans for hundreds of instances; the CIO expects 3–4x developer output on routine code updates.

  • ~12,000
    Human developers
  • 3–4x (estimate)
    Expected output gain

Caveats

Reported by a news outlet, usually based on company statements.

  • This is a pilot announcement, not a measured result.
  • The 3–4x figure is the CIO's expectation.

What the agent does

Devin takes routine engineering tickets, such as updating internal code to newer languages or frameworks. Human engineers assign the work and review the results.

Why it matters

This is a large, regulated bank treating a coding agent as a team member at scale. Watch for follow-up data on merge rates and review cost.

What to copy

  • Start agents on modernization backlogs that humans avoid.
  • Decide the review rules before scale: who approves, and what tests must pass.
  • Count agent "seats" like headcount, with a cost per merged change.

Starter prompt

Written by us.

Ticket: {ticket_id} — move {service} from {old_framework} to {new_framework}.

Constraints:
- Keep the public API identical.
- Keep test coverage at or above the current level.
- Do not touch files outside {service_path}.

When done, open a pull request with: summary, risk notes, and the exact
commands you ran to test it.

Sources

  1. Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder — CNBC (via NBC Chicago), Jul 2025

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