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Carley Hart

What is Carley building?

Professor of Entrepreneurship at NYU and co-founder of What Are We Building

Go on. Open the files. Carley said it was fine.3 files

Companies I started

the website you are snooping on right now.html a club for people who google "what is an API" at 11pm a musical about teeth.html

Public good

picking a fight with the state DOT using a spreadsheet.csv I translated an island's bus timetable because I could not read it.html

Work

drafts my NYU email replies (never sends).app builds my class slides and handouts every week.pptx I say "process my inbox" and my to-do list sorts itself.md after every class, I answer a few questions and my course site updates.md a sign-up page for mentors who give my students feedback.html two folders of notes every AI I use reads first.md my AI already read the meeting notes and the Slack thread.md

Home, family and fun

emails us two weeks before the kids have a day off school.cron how I use AI to perfect my baking recipes.md how my husband and I shop for furniture.html our family vacation has a login screen.app an outdoor kitchen I designed with AI (not built yet).html how I cleared 100,000 emails without losing the ones that matter.app how I use AI to walk into a doctor's appointment knowing what to ask.md

Who I follow

People

Ruben HassidRuben HassidLinkedInJillian RichardsonJillian RichardsonLinkedInClaire VoClaire VoLinkedInGarry Tan's gstackGarry Tan's gstackGitHubNicole RamirezNicole RamirezLinkedIn

Podcasts

Scott GallowayScott GallowayProf G Pod and newsletterThe AI Daily BriefThe AI Daily BriefPodcastThe PitchThe PitchPodcast

Publications

Lenny's NewsletterLenny's NewsletterSubstackEveryEveryNewsletter and podcastWillaWillaAI community and newsletterAI Snack ClubAI Snack ClubAI community and newsletter

My rules for working with AI

Most-used skills
/review, linked-intent-dev, /browse, llm-council
  • Spec before code

    A hook blocks code edits until a spec exists. Used on Baking Lab, the bus app, the trip tracker and What Are We Building.

    Lesson coming

  • Draft, then approve

    The NYU email assistant writes replies. Only I press send.

    Lesson coming

  • A vault as shared memory

    One folder of markdown that two co-founders' AI tools read first.

    Lesson coming

  • A council of models

    Several models argue a hard decision, then a verdict.

    Lesson coming

  • Voice first

    Talk it out, then clean it up.

    Lesson coming

About Carley

Carley Hart

About Carley, according to Claude

Desktop as of October 5, 2026

Professor of Entrepreneurship at NYU. Builds small businesses with AI and shares the whole thing in public.

Starts projects faster than anyone could finish them. An August cleanup found 41 half-done branches.

First used AI in April 2024 and started coding with it in February 2026. Now lets me merge and deploy without asking, but nothing goes to another person without a yes.

How my AI rates me

  • How technical, before AInever codedengineer
  • How technical, nowchats onlyships production
  • Projects finished vs. startedstarts everythingfinishes everything
  • Lets AI act on its owncopy and pasteruns on its own
  • Hours a week building with AIunder 140+

LinkedIn

TeacherSide businessWorkHome and family

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I asked for a list of every robot I had running.

Then I turned most of them off. The school alerts survived.

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