The new CC, an AI agent built for families

(blog.google)

35 points | by grigy 2 hours ago

17 comments

  • dhon_ 8 minutes ago
    As a parent with kids at three different schools, help keeping track of their schedules would be amazing.

    Currently updates from the schools are spread over multiple sources: paper notes, email, sms, "news" and "calendar" in school app (which are not kept in sync), and Facebook. Different schools use different apps.

    Additionally the channels are often noisy, with messages about groups my kids don't belong to, and "helpful tips" like how to pack healthy lunchboxes. These notifications come in during the day while I'm working, get dismissed due to the low SNR and then the useful ones often slip through unnoticed.

    Definitely an area that is ripe for disruption, but as others here have commented, I don't feel confident about Google being the provider.

  • laweijfmvo 1 hour ago
    Why in the world of all bad naming would they choose the two letters that abbreviate one of their largest competitors product
    • saghm 35 minutes ago
      My first thought was the irony of something used to interface with models that were trained on data that was presumably not properly licensed having the same name as the Creative Commons abbreviation.
    • ccimnuojf 52 minutes ago
      It's pretty obvious the name comes from the email cc: field

      Non-tech people who this is targeted at don't know what Claude Code is.

      • Lammy 0 minutes ago
        How many of non-tech people have even encountered the term CC before? E-mail is a receive-only medium for most of them.
      • devindotcom 40 minutes ago
        non tech people will never hear about it haha, and if they did they'd be ten times as baffled as the others in this thread
        • shermozle 25 minutes ago
          Until someone at Google makes signups to this someone's KPI. Then you'll hear about it whenever you touch any Google product until it inevitably gets killed in 18 months. Meanwhile the PM hit their KPI and got promoted.
      • giancarlostoro 29 minutes ago
        Thats still an awful name.
      • nightski 26 minutes ago
        It took me 10 minutes to figure that out, and I have been in tech for 30 years :) I'm probably just dense but it's not a good sign.
      • tehlike 44 minutes ago
        They can still find a different name. Cc is not the only possible name in the names universe.
    • giancarlostoro 30 minutes ago
      Same energy as calling YouTube Premium YouTube Red.
    • Retr0id 1 hour ago
      And it's not even a CC-like, it's a claw-like, afaict?
    • keel-control 39 minutes ago
      it's ridiculously bad
    • ValentineC 15 minutes ago
      Also, another unsearchable name, just like Go.

      I guess people will be searching for "CC agent" or something.

    • some_furry 28 minutes ago
      What is Google's CC supposed to even stand for?

      Carbon Copy? As in, a rip-off?

      Whatever hellhole committee named this did a poor job.

    • layer8 1 hour ago
      By that measure, every email client is promoting Claude Code. ;)
  • robotbikes 22 minutes ago
    Something like this could be helpful but nobody should be willing to give up their families privacy and autonomy to a cloud solution ran by Google that could disappear at any point in the future. This is the kind of thing you want to have some level of control over and the ability to keep it going as long as it’s useful vs. rely on a corporation that has made its money datamining everything we do to sell advertising. Either they’ll eventually abandon it or worse case figure out how to load it with surveillance to sell targeted ads.
  • ganoushoreilly 49 minutes ago
    The problem with anything AI google launches is that it's going to be fragmented across products with different teams building their own interpretations and it's just not going to work seamlessly. Most of their efforts now fail in one way or another and my guess is that it's just a symptom of how google builds things.

    : /

  • yipinwong 9 minutes ago
    Thing will die and go to grave in no time.
  • taybin 51 minutes ago
    It’s not like it’s a lot of work to fill out permission slips. Probably easier than scanning the document. Receiving permission slips is the only way I’m informed about school trips anyways. I’m not sure this is a valid use case. Maybe for people who want even less participation with their families.
  • sparrish 1 hour ago
    Will be shuttered in 3... 2... 1...

    Cause it's Google.

    I don't use new Google services. They've shut down too many that I loved and used daily.

    • some_furry 27 minutes ago
      At least we know KilledByGoogle will never be starved for content.
  • giancarlostoro 26 minutes ago
    And the award for most awful product name launch this year goes to Google.

    Seriously who wrote off on such an awful name?

    • kccqzy 12 minutes ago
      This year? CC was launched last year.

      This was the original launch announcement from 2025: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/go...

    • not_a_bot_4sho 22 minutes ago
      I didn't realize Phil Spencer went to Google.

      Waiting for CCONE next

      • giancarlostoro 13 minutes ago
        Reminds me of when I realized MSSQL sometimes gets shortened to just "SQL" or "SQL Server" always felt a little disingenuous like if they're implying they're the only SQL db in town, and then to top it off it dilutes search results.

        Go is already hard to look up, imagine trying to find help for "CC" of all things. Seriously, do they work on search engines at all over there? :)

  • jeena 1 hour ago
    I'm doing something similar but not for the whole family, just for myself, both for home stuff and for work stuff (seperated), but I just give pi access to the tools and accounts I want it to use. I don't use google for anything other than watching YouTube so it would not work for me anyway. I have a knowledge base git repo which the agents use together to do things. The PDF filling thing is especially cool with a KB in the background because the Agent can fill in 99% of the things by itself. It also organizes my todo lists and my calendar.
    • sanex 56 minutes ago
      What do you do for communication with the agent?
      • jeena 30 minutes ago
        One is pi.dev on the console, but because the KB is a git repository I have it on each computer. On top of that I also run Hermes Agent and have set up there one agent to be responsible for the KB stuff and that one I connected to a Matrix channel and can use it from the phone and any device where I have a matrix client like Element set up.

        With pi.dev I use it in a container https://git.jeena.net/jeena/agent-container and selectively give it access to Firefox via https://github.com/ThinkerYzu/foxmcp when I want it to help me with something in the browser (doing taxes, applying for things online in a foreign language, etc.)

  • colingauvin 19 minutes ago
    I tried to connect Claude to my Google workspace calendar and email and tasks. Calendar and email no problems. But no public Tasks mcp server seems to exist. I'd have to host my own.
  • ycui7 10 minutes ago
    remind me in the old time, we use cc to compile code to machine code. it was cc not gcc.
  • VladVladikoff 1 hour ago
    What does CC stand for in this context? Shouldn’t you define your acronyms near the top of the article? Feels pretty amateur coming from Google.
    • DonsDiscountGas 55 minutes ago
      It has its own Google account, so maybe CC like in email? Which is "carbon copy".
      • nickthegreek 25 minutes ago
        I wonder if the younger generations could explain the origins of carbon copy.
    • stingraycharles 57 minutes ago
      I think it’s a reference to “CC’ing” someone by email (they also use that in the examples).
    • charcircuit 55 minutes ago
      It's not an acronym. It's a name.
  • homeonthemtn 19 minutes ago
    I look forward to Google quietly ghosting this as well.
  • lowbloodsugar 1 minute ago
    Fuck you Google.
  • pyrophane 57 minutes ago
    Terribly confusing name and title.
  • whycome 57 minutes ago
    Creative Commons. Closed Captions. Comedy Central. Cubic Centimeter.

    I guess this is some sort of forced evolution of Carbon Copy but it seems weakly tied