Fail loud: how a silent ElevenLabs fallback hid a credential bug — and the platform fix that closed the class
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For a week, every podcast.generate call returned HTTP 200 with has_narration: false and an MP3 made entirely of silence. No log line, no error, just a quietly broken artifact you only noticed by listening to it. The fix landed in v0.11.0 as two PRs that close the bug at two layers: one fails loud at the pack contract, the other closes the class at the platform.