Because bias and incentives matter.

There's a reason disclosures are obligatory in academic papers.

It’s published on gitlab.com, not arxiv

It's almost like the speakers are motivated by advertising a product to solve a problem in their own garden.

They pulled a little sneaky on ya, mentioning GitLab security features available to GitLab users in a GitLab Security blog post with GitLab logos everywhere.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I start to think these people might be affiliated with GitLab.

It's more like, you don't know where honest technical evaluation ends, and an ad starts.

It's all an ad.

It didn’t make it less insightful, but it recontextualized what was, in hindsight, a pretty strong bias towards fearmongering.