A deep dive into the architectural decisions behind migrating text-to-speech from ElevenLabs to Deepgram Aura-2 on Cloudflare Workers AI, and what it means to collapse third-party dependency boundaries. The episode explores how generating studio-quality 48kHz 16-bit WAV audio within the same infrastructure that orchestrates everything else fundamentally changes the role of the AudioGenDO Durable Object — transforming it from a coordinator into a full audio lifecycle owner. The conversation then shifts to the next logical evolution: moving six client-side analyzers out of the VS Code extension and into the cloud as MCP agents, eliminating heavy analysis workloads from the developer's local machine and enabling the architecture to scale beyond a single environment. A concise but technically rich discussion about finishing an architectural migration that's already pointing in the right direction.