dopamine

This is clearly something done in official capacity, during working hours, with the knowledge and support of his manager, who announced the CLI. It says "This is not an officially supported Google product" because it's a DevRel sample/experiment, just like dozens of other Google repositories made by Google employees as part of their job. Even some other tools in github.com/google have as much: https://github.com/google/python-fire / https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/main/docs/index.md / https://github.com/google/dopamine / https://github.com/google/go-tika

There are plenty of such projects with similar disclaimers under Google's own /google/ organization. To give a few examples: https://github.com/google/python-fire / https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/main/docs/index.md / https://github.com/google/dopamine / https://github.com/google/go-tika Also plenty of official Google organizations that are not /google/ , but have official projects. https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/discussions/865 / https://github.com/google-research/big_vision / you can find plenty more I wouldn't read too much into it, since it can mean virtually anything.

That discussion is on Dopamine the startup, not the framework from Google. Google's framework is at https://github.com/google/dopamine and I don't believe it's generated discussion on HN before.

Here is the source code https://github.com/google/dopamine

It's interesting to note that there is a dependency on OpenAI's gym. From here: https://github.com/google/dopamine sudo apt-get install cmake zlib1g-dev pip install absl-py atari-py gin-config gym opencv-python tensorflow