Show Notes
## SHOW NOTES
Goldman Sachs reveals that Anthropic engineers have been embedded inside the bank for six months, co-developing autonomous AI agents for trade accounting and compliance. Today: what the forward deployed engineer model tells us about how AI actually enters institutions — and why the enterprise strategy we've been tracking just became concrete.
**In this episode:**
- Marco Argenti's pivotal question: Is coding special, or is Claude's strength about reasoning? - Six months of embedded Anthropic engineers inside Goldman Sachs - The Palantir playbook: why forward deployed engineering is exploding across AI - Accenture's 30,000 Claude-trained professionals and the industrialisation of embedding - What "constrain headcount growth" and "cut out third-party providers" actually signal - The connection to last week's SaaS selloff — Goldman validates the fear
**Links:**
- CNBC: "Goldman Sachs is tapping Anthropic's AI model to automate accounting, compliance roles" (February 6, 2026) - Anthropic: Accenture partnership announcement (anthropic.com/news) - The Pragmatic Engineer: "What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?"
**Referenced in this episode:**
- EP005: The Enterprise Question — Boris Cherny's "enterprise AI company" quote - EP012: The Quiet Weekend — Fennec leaking from enterprise infrastructure
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