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Cause & Effect 🎙️ Episode #06

Inside OpenRouter's Tech Stack and Use of Effect

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Louis Vichy

OpenRouter·Nov 11, 2025·86:11

Episode Notes

Louis Vichy, co-founder of OpenRouter, joins Johannes Schickling and Michael Arnaldi to talk about OpenRouter’s TypeScript stack, internal tooling powered by Effect, and the engineering challenges of scaling an AI platform processing trillions of tokens weekly.

Effect is an ecosystem of tools for building robust, production-grade applications in TypeScript.

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