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2026-01-288 min

End-to-end type safety without the ceremony

How to keep Zod, OpenAPI, and generated clients honest without drowning teams in codegen rituals.

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The split brain problem

Teams often maintain three truths: runtime validators, OpenAPI, and handwritten clients.

One source, many projections

Start with Zod at the boundary. Generate OpenAPI. Generate clients. Contract-test responses against the same types.

DX that sticks

Developers adopt type safety when it removes toil.