I don't know if that really solves your problem if the main trunk of development for gitlab is being run through several AI slop machines before they push it to

I don't know if that really solves your problem if the main trunk of development for gitlab is being run through several AI slop machines before they push it to what they call stable, then you download that (or use a debian, redhat package for gitlab which originated from it) and self host on your own machine the results of the AI slop fest.