[jaggirs]

Why would that make it any less insightfull?

[hu3]

Because bias and incentives matter.

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

[baq]

It’s published on gitlab.com, not arxiv

[rockskon]

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

[serial_dev]

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.

[TeMPOraL]

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

[hiccuphippo]

It's all an ad.

[Aeolun]

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