Lenny Rachitsky · 5 min read · Gen AI Tools
🎙️ This week on How I AI: 5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code & How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers
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Jesse Genet demonstrates how five OpenClaw AI agents run different areas of her life—homeschooling, finances, scheduling, development projects, and household operations—completely managed across separate Mac Minis. She treats each agent as a distinct hire with defined roles, restricted data access, and progressive trust, to prevent data leaks and missteps. The episode shares actionable workflows like photo-based input for lesson planning, building apps without coding, and inventorying physical items to connect the digital and physical worlds.
Key Takeaways
- Treat each AI agent like a new hire: assign a defined role, scoped data access, distinct communication channels, and progressive trust.
- Physically partition agents (e.g., one per device) to prevent data leakage and improve security by isolating data by agent’s domain.
- Use photos as primary input for AI workflows—snap a picture and get structured outputs without typing.
- Inventory your physical world so AI can reference real-world items and bridge digital workflows with tangible assets.
- You can build real software with a coding agent even without terminal experience—describe what you want, push back when needed, and iterate.
Excerpt
Every Monday, host Claire Vo shares a 30- to 45-minute episode with a new guest demoing a practical, impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. No pontificating—just specific and actionable advice. 5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code | Jesse Genet Brought to you by: Optimizely —Your AI agent orchestration platform for marketing and digital teams Jesse Genet is a homeschooling parent and entrepreneur who operates five specialized OpenClaw agents, each on its own Mac Mini, to manage homeschool curriculum, family finances, scheduling, development projects, and household operations. She treats each agent like…