Investment Banking Analyst Quits After Claude Replaces Weekend Work in 20 Minutes
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-08-21
A first-year investment banking analyst quit after six months, not because of the hours, but because he discovered that Claude could build financial models in 20 minutes that took him an entire weekend.
The post details that while AI cannot replace the judgment, relationships, and deal instinct of experienced bankers, the mechanical aspects like modeling, formula construction, comp tables, and pitch book formatting are purely process-based. AI executes these processes faster, more consistently, and at a higher quality than human juniors.
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