Recently, everyone has been hyping AI Agents about going fully automated on-chain, but I can’t quite calm myself down… To put it plainly, what this on-chain setup fears most isn’t “not being able to calculate,” but “calculating it wrong and still daring to click confirm.” Authorization/limits, the cross-chain part, contract upgrades and parameter changes, and encountering weird slippage and “traps”—when something really goes wrong, in the end someone still has to stand up to hit pause, revoke authorization, switch routes, and even admit loss and cut losses. No matter how smart the Agent is, it can’t take on that “I’m just going to accept this” kind of resolve on your behalf.



Also, don’t underestimate all those little pitfalls in the infrastructure: RPC going haywire, nodes not syncing, the front-end signature pop-up getting stuck—I was sitting there refreshing/retrying yesterday, queuing up to get the transactions on-chain… In situations like this, the Agent will only become more stubborn; what it really needs is a human to back it up with a “don’t charge ahead” instruction.

As for the recent public discourse that’s been interpreting ETF fund flows, US stock risk appetite, and coin prices together, I look at it as feeding the Agent too many macro stories—it may be more prone to overconfidence. On-chain is ultimately the execution layer: the noise is fun, but in the end, the person who signs the transaction is still the one who takes the blame. That’s it for now.
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