I was resigned to not challenging myself to build technical or hard things for like the next five years or so.

I really want to be present with my kids. I need to take this break, basically. That is no longer true.

A weird superpower of mine is just how incredibly motivated I am for agents to do work for me.

I got my agents to learn how to build other agents on their own.

So I could be like, we need another agent, you guys, and they actually can spin them up without

me touching the machine, which is a little crazy. But the first few weeks were very rough. It would be

a level of pain that I wouldn't want an average person to go through. But the thing is,

In the 1950s, labor-saving appliances were supposed to give

mothers more free time. Instead, standards rose to fill the gap. Laundry went from weekly to daily.

Meals became more elaborate. The hours stayed the same. Seven decades later, a former YC founder,

homeschooling four children under six,

decided to test whether AI agents could actually break that cycle. She built 11 agents,

each with a distinct role, from lesson planning to grocery ordering to logging her children's

progress via voice notes. Her agents now build other agents without her touching the machine.

The result is not a frictionless home.

It is a home where a parent can spend two uninterrupted hours ignoring her children on purpose,

because she believes boredom is a skill worth teaching.

Catherine Boyle and Sarah Wang speak with Jesse Jeney.

Startup Builder turned family builder.

Jesse, it is so fantastic to have you here.

I think you've been what I would call a viral sensation on X, posting videos of how

you're homeschooling your family, four children under the age of five,

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