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.