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Cause & Effect · June 19 · 1 hr 45 min

Effectifying OpenCode #8

Get support from the Effect community Kit Langton joins the podcast to talk about Effect, OpenCode, and what it takes to migrate a large TypeScript codebase to Effect. Enjoy a very Kit episode, technical, funny, opinionated, and full of love for effect systems. Follow Kit: - X - YouTube - GitHub Mentioned in the video: - effect.solutions - effect.institute - hex.kitlangton.com Effect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript. Website & docs Community & support Follow us on X (Twitter) Github #Effect #TypeScript #OpenCode #softwareDevelopment Song: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/Cruising Watch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube (00:00) - Episode highlight: why effect systems matter (00:43) - Meet Kit Langton (03:49) - Effect Institute, Visual Effect, and interactive learning (13:15) - Bringing Effect into OpenCode (19:18) - Schema, branded IDs, and safer types (27:35) - Effect services, layers, and architecture (32:28) - Testing LLM workflows with Effect (46:24) - Incremental adoption in a real TypeScript codebase (50:44) - effect.solutions and agent-ready patterns (01:00:36) - Layers, dependencies, observability, and telemetry (01:16:58) - AI-first coding workflows (01:34:35) - Using Effect v4 in OpenCode (01:36:56) - What’s next for OpenCode (01:42:33) - Closing thoughts

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Get support from the Effect community

Kit Langton joins the podcast to talk about Effect, OpenCode, and what it takes to migrate a large TypeScript codebase to Effect. Enjoy a very Kit episode, technical, funny, opinionated, and full of love for effect systems.


Follow Kit:

- X

- YouTube

- GitHub


Mentioned in the video:

- effect.solutions

- effect.institute

- hex.kitlangton.com


Effect is an ecosystem of tools to build production-grade software in TypeScript.

#Effect #TypeScript #OpenCode #softwareDevelopment

Song: Dosi & Aisake - Cruising [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Free Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/Cruising
Watch: http://ncs.lnk.to/CruisingAT/youtube

  • (00:00) - Episode highlight: why effect systems matter
  • (00:43) - Meet Kit Langton
  • (03:49) - Effect Institute, Visual Effect, and interactive learning
  • (13:15) - Bringing Effect into OpenCode
  • (19:18) - Schema, branded IDs, and safer types
  • (27:35) - Effect services, layers, and architecture
  • (32:28) - Testing LLM workflows with Effect
  • (46:24) - Incremental adoption in a real TypeScript codebase
  • (50:44) - effect.solutions and agent-ready patterns
  • (01:00:36) - Layers, dependencies, observability, and telemetry
  • (01:16:58) - AI-first coding workflows
  • (01:34:35) - Using Effect v4 in OpenCode
  • (01:36:56) - What’s next for OpenCode
  • (01:42:33) - Closing thoughts
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