Episode 122 -- Tech's Vibe Shift and AI Discourse

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.8 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A few months ago, as part of the research for his forthcoming book What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian took a drive down Highway 101 from San Francisco to Palo Alto and back. This episode is about what the billboards along that stretch of highway tell us about Silicon Valley, about our tech elites, and about how technology is remaking society (it's not in the way you think).

If you'd like to buy Adrian's book, it's available for pre-order in the German edition only for now.

If you'd like to check out the work of Wendy Liu, whose column that Adrian and Moira refer to in the episode (and who did the drive with Adrian), you can find that here and here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Adrienne Dole.
0:08.6	And I'm Weirondon.
0:09.8	Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.
0:13.8	So, Adrian, today, before we dig in, I have a question for you.
0:20.5	Shoot.
0:21.2	Does your AI agent need a workflow engine?
0:25.9	This is a good question, and it's one that I keep getting asked.
0:28.7	People are asking, it's all I know.
0:31.4	Yes, what Juarez alluding to, that is the first line of my forthcoming book,
0:37.8	what tech calls governing.
0:39.3	And it is a sentence that really stopped me,
0:42.3	well, not data my tracks because I saw it on a highway billboard.
0:45.3	But it might have, and it would have been dangerous if I had stopped
0:48.3	and been like, oh, God, does it?
0:49.8	Do I need an AI agent?
0:52.1	Does it have such an engine?
0:54.0	Like, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
0:55.0	Your AI agent is lonely, or its workflow is not engine.
0:59.5	I know.
1:00.1	Poor AI agent.
1:01.2	For our listeners who might justifiably be wondering what the fuck we're talking about.
1:05.3	Yeah.
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