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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.
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- (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
