AI triage on bug reports is only useful if it doesn't slow down submission. At IssueCapture , every incoming bug report gets auto-categorized, priority-scored, sentiment-analyzed, and checked for duplicates — all without adding latency to the user-facing request path. Everything runs on Gemini with OpenAI as fallback. Here's the architecture. Queue First, AI Second The most important decision was not about AI. It was about where AI lives in the request lifecycle. When a user submits a bug report, the synchronous path is: Validate the API key Create the Jira issue Return success to the user That's it. AI processing happens in a separate queue. The user never waits for inference.…