The early ID deduplication in the main loop (seenIDs check) already
prevents duplicate IDs from reaching newIssues. The pre-batch
deduplication was dead code that could never fire.
Keeping two layers:
1. Early dedup in main loop - catches duplicates in JSONL input
2. INSERT OR IGNORE at DB level - safety net for all code paths
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