Your AI Isn't the Advantage. Your Judgment Is - Sid Pednekar

Sid Pednekar, an AI, technology and data executive in asset management, looks at why most companies now have AI but only a few see real results from it. Following two hypothetical firms, he lays out three things the leaders do differently: they pick the right problem and invest deeply in a few high-value workflows instead of scattering pilots, they build shared capabilities by standardizing the core and breaking down silos, and they make every success and failure feed back into the system. Running through all of it is one idea: when intelligence gets cheap, judgment becomes the scarce resource. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:48 Who's actually getting value from AI 3:38 Judgment is the scarce resource 5:28 Pillar 1: Design the right problem 8:15 Invest deeply, not widely 9:59 Redesign how work gets done 11:53 Pillar 2: Build shared capabilities 13:04 Standardize the core, personalize the edges 14:37 The enterprise wasn't built for agents 16:34 Pillar 3: Compound the advantage 17:46 The final question Sid Pednekar Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!