https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33754907 mentioned it, and I addressed that "run pipeline locally" claim, which has 100% not been my experience

Now, the asterisk to that claim is that I have had good success running gitlab locally, with local runners, such that I can do whatever crazy thing I want to the CI variables, to the repo, to the branches, and can run the runners in "debug" mode (although usually not necessary since I can "docker exec" into them) but the idea that I can just tell my colleagues to "brew install gitlab-runner && gitlab-runner exec some-job" is for sure false