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Cause & Effect 🎙️ Episode #03

Scaling Voice AI at MasterClass with Effect & TypeScript

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David Golightly

·Jun 24, 2025·69:26

Episode Notes

In this episode of Cause & Effect, Johannes Schickling had a conversation with David Golightly, Staff Engineer at MasterClass, to explore how his team built Cortex – a real-time voice AI orchestration layer that powers personalized conversations with celebrity instructors like Gordon Ramsay and Mark Cuban.

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