The new CC, an AI agent built for families

(blog.google)

27 points | by grigy 1 hour ago

9 comments

  • giancarlostoro 7 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?

    • ganoushoreilly 30 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.

      : /

      • laweijfmvo 59 minutes ago

        Why in the world of all bad naming would they choose the two letters that abbreviate one of their largest competitors product

        • saghm 16 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.

          • giancarlostoro 11 minutes ago

            Same energy as calling YouTube Premium YouTube Red.

            • ccimnuojf 33 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.

              • nightski 7 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.

                • devindotcom 21 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 6 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 10 minutes ago

                    Thats still an awful name.

                    • tehlike 25 minutes ago

                      They can still find a different name. Cc is not the only possible name in the names universe.

                    • some_furry 9 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.

                      • keel-control 20 minutes ago

                        it's ridiculously bad

                        • Retr0id 52 minutes ago

                          And it's not even a CC-like, it's a claw-like, afaict?

                          • layer8 47 minutes ago

                            By that measure, every email client is promoting Claude Code. ;)

                          • taybin 32 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 51 minutes 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 8 minutes ago

                                At least we know KilledByGoogle will never be starved for content.

                              • jeena 45 minutes 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 37 minutes ago

                                  What do you do for communication with the agent?

                                  • jeena 11 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.)

                                • VladVladikoff 45 minutes 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 36 minutes ago

                                    It has its own Google account, so maybe CC like in email? Which is "carbon copy".

                                    • nickthegreek 6 minutes ago

                                      I wonder if the younger generations could explain the origins of carbon copy.

                                    • stingraycharles 38 minutes ago

                                      I think it’s a reference to “CC’ing” someone by email (they also use that in the examples).

                                    • charcircuit 36 minutes ago

                                      It's not an acronym. It's a name.

                                    • pyrophane 38 minutes ago

                                      Terribly confusing name and title.

                                      • whycome 38 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