Comment by AndrewKemendo
6 hours ago
When I took over MLAgents at the end of 2021, before Unity fully shit themselves after the insane Weta acquisition, the main metric they were using to promote the project internally were github stars
Yes actually
Needless to say they didn’t like when I said this was a worthless metric and we needed to be using something like “working policies” or “time saved training”
should have bought a few thousand stars on the internet and then taken the promotion to director
I was already a director and didn’t need the promotion
I just wanted to build a good product but unfortunately good products are not relevant
For those of us that don't understand what was so insane about the Weta acquisition?
It never made sense. Weta tools don’t work with Unity at all
There were no complementary workflows or infrastructure or anything.
It was explicitly a move to try to counter epic’s positioning and internally it was very obviously a JR versus Tim pissing contest (and JR was the only one in the contest because Tim didn’t give a fuck about Unity)