I am a Solutions Architect at Vercel.
Mac Carlton
I build AI systems and tools for the web.
I write about what I am learning and build projects to explore it.
I live in San Francisco.
My background spans web development, AI, and product.
I studied business and computer science at UNC Chapel Hill.
What is new
The work and writing I am most excited about right now.
Latest project
We got llms at home.
Real language model checkpoints trained locally, then loaded and run in the browser with a custom TypeScript and WebGPU inference runtime.
Latest essay
August 6, 2026
Don't Be a Slop Cannon
AI applies the pressure of disposable everything to something new: intelligence. Use it a lot. Just don't let the speed replace the part of you that decides.
Selected projects
Products and experiments in AI, developer tools, and data.
Ghostwriter
A focused writing environment where quiet inline suggestions help you find the next sentence without handing the page over to AI.
Infinite Site
An on-demand Next.js application that streams generated Markdown into safe, cached pages with per-page regeneration and visible cache behavior.
LocAI
Local ordinance intelligence inside a chat workflow, helping civil engineering and commercial real estate teams validate site plans faster.
Recent writing
Notes on AI, attention, incentives, and building useful things.
The Model Is the Spice. Own the Machine Around It.
The Dune analogy is not that tokens are scarce. It is that dependency creates power. Own the boundary around inference, and the system that makes your product valuable.
Attention as Power: The Signal That Shapes Us
What we pay attention to becomes what we believe, who we are, and how the world changes. Attention is not just a resource - it's a force.
When the Context Flips: Rethinking AGI and the Future of Human-AI Collaboration
Artificial General Intelligence might not arrive with a bang, but with a flip - when AI stops waiting for input and starts offering context.
Using AI Intentionally: A Systems Thinking Approach
How to think about AI through the lens of inflows, stocks, and outflows - and why that matters.