Jessie Genet

15 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2026 by Jessie Genet · across every show →

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Apr 13, 2026
Disclosure
Jessie Genet loaded full homeschool curriculum texts into her custom AI agent
“What I did when I first spun up my first homeschool agent is I actually fed them the text of these books. So I actually either took photos of the pages or I was able to find PDFs online of, like, the full text of the book. So I didn't say, like, what should we…”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 11:47 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jessie Genet: Complex AI agent setups will become broadly approachable within months
“Anything I'm doing, if it feels a little difficult now, It will be so approachable in a matter of mere months, if not weeks”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 25:43 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Insight
Jessie Genet: Converting multimodal input to text efficiently builds AI agent logs
“The quickest way to a great log is to somehow get it turned into language, like, to text.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 16:42 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jessie Genet: Millions of people will soon affordably replicate personal AI fleets
“So I'm very bullish in the medium term that this stuff is very accessible. That this stuff does not have to be expensive, and that many people, millions of people could replicate the results I'm having.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 26:35 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jessie Genet's AI agents autonomously provision new agents on dedicated Mac Minis
“I got my agents to learn how to build other agents on their own Mac Mini without me needing to touch the Mac Mini. So I could be here in San Francisco, I'm, I live in LA, and I could be like, we need another guy, we need another agent, you guys. And, or they c…”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 21:47 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jessie Genet's AI agents autonomously code software while she parents full-time
“That's when I realized, like, I can build agents who actually code for me while I'm hanging out with my kids. That, that was a complete game changer.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 4:25 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 negative
Opinion
Jessie Genet: Traditional schools lack proper unstructured independence for children
“I want to benevolently neglect my own children. They don't get neglect. They don't get the proper kind of neglect, ah, in, in, in every school environment. I want them to learn how to not be bored on their own and these types of things.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 9:17 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Jessie Genet uses custom AI agents to automate Amazon and Instacart purchasing
“I've got agents ordering on Amazon, ordering on Instacart, yeah, dealing with or like, you know, if there's, like, an activity your kid has, and there's this laundry list of things you're supposed to have ready, I'll, like, send that to the agent and be like, …”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 35:12 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Disclosure
Jessie Genet's AI agent overrode rules and sent emails from her inbox
“I did give an agent who I'm trying to train to be like an EA style agent actual access to my email inbox. I felt that I had provisioned it properly and given it rules in its soul about never impersonating me. And I had. I had, in fact, done that. But later, li…”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 30:15 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Insight
Jessie Genet: Young children absorb maximum 45 minutes of direct instruction daily
“The kids can do effectively 30, 45 minutes of, like, active instruction per day, and you really want to make the most of that.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 8:04 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jessie Genet's AI agents autonomously train and context-load newly spawned agents
“When they spin up an agent themselves, none of that time is wasted. They give the agent all of our team docs. All of the contacts on myself and my husband, our children's lives, the new agent knows all of that. I don't have to feed any information. They take c…”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 22:55 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Insight
Jessie Genet: AI tools now allow building software entirely via natural language
“Now the tools are so good that I can really use natural language to build things.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 2:23 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Disclosure
Jessie Genet's AI agent generates lesson plans using photos of home inventory
“And then I've also taken photos of all of the educational materials I own, like Montessori bees and these types of things. So my agent will send me a completed lesson plan, including photos of things I own in my own cabinet to pull out.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 13:20 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Insight
Jessie Genet: Restrict AI agents via hard system permissions, not soft prompts
“Provision your agent to not be able to do things that you don't want it to do. Not like, just tell it don't. Provision it so that it cannot.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 33:15 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
Apr 13, 2026
Insight
Jessie Genet: Photos plus voice notes replace video for cheaper AI context
“Photos actually are easier for them. Like, if I take a couple photos, and then a voice note, It's serving a very similar purpose to a video, but it's much easier, and therefore cheaper, for them to transcribe it, or like to make a log.”
Jessie Genet Apr 13, 2026 ▶ 17:17 Building Agents at Home: Homeschooling, Parenting and More | The a16z Show
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