Jesse Genet has a number of AI agents on her household staff. There’s Claire, who has access to her Amazon account, as well as her Instacart to monitor her family’s food supply and handle the shopping. There’s also Sylvie, who runs her kids’ homeschool; the Wests — Clark, Dan, and Chloe — who deal with legal and financial paperwork; and a team of coding agents that can build pretty much any app Genet describes. Genet used to manage humans. She was the co-founder and CEO of Lumi, a start-up that sold custom packaging to e-commerce companies until it was acquired in 2021. After that, she became a stay-at-home mom. She and her husband — Ryan Hudson, a co-founder of Honey — moved their family to a horse ranch an hour outside Los Angeles. Her youngest child was just six months old; she had assumed that for the next five years, at least, she was finished with technical projects and with thinking about which company to start next. Then, earlier this year, she started playing with AI agents, “and I got five years back,” she says. That optimistic AI future is still a ways off, if it’s even possible at all. But Genet is already living in a rough draft of it. Many of the people experimenting with agents today are engineers and programmers, and they mostly use them just to do their existing jobs faster: to write code, summarize meetings, and organize their inboxes. Genet, who has never written a line of code, has built her entire home life around them — and become a cheerful evangelist for the tech. Read Lane Brown’s full report: nymag.visitlink.me/ZPdWdV

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