Google CC, Controlling Image Generators, and Planning with Agents

This week we talk about Google's new CC agent for managing family tasks, some techniques to control image generators when you want to constrain certain elements, and a deep article on planning with AI agents. Show Notes https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/googles-new-cc-is-an-ai-agent-that-helps-families-run-their-households/ https://trpevski.com/blog/image-model-decide-everything https://maggieappleton.com/planning-agents Mai Lee Chang, Alicia (Hyun Jin) Lee, Nara Han, Anna Huang, Hugo Simão, Samantha Reig, Abdullah Ubed Mohammad Ali, Rebekah Martinez, Neeta M Khanuja, John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, and Aaron Steinfeld. 2024. Dynamic Agent Affiliation: Who Should the AI Agent Work for in the Older Adult's Care Network? In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1774–1788. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661500 ShiftUX workshop: https://shiftux.rosenfeldmedia.com/workshops/designing-ai-for-humans ShiftUX talk: https://shiftux.rosenfeldmedia.com/program/day-2-turing-machines/ Dan's ShiftUX Discount Code: SAFFER-SHIFT26