These days, I've been reviewing the set of AI Agents automatically on-chain again. Honestly, it’s quite like a mirror ball: you think you're watching "intelligence," but really you're just seeing your own desire to save effort. I used to be obsessed with "only looking at the chain," thinking that seeing fund flows and interaction counts was reliable. But I later realized that’s not enough; no matter how clean the chain is, a single wrong authorization can still drain your wallet.

Now I think there are quite a few steps that still need human oversight: First, permissions/signatures, especially for unlimited approvals and contract upgrades—no matter how clever the Agent is, it can’t take responsibility for the consequences; second, the boundary conditions of strategies—when liquidity on-chain thins out, slippage and MEV (front-running traps) can turn "automatic" into "automatic loss"; third, exception handling—if a bug or oracle glitch occurs, someone needs to be able to hit the pause button, rather than continuing until everything hits zero.

Anyone can boast about their narrative, but I care more about who’s paying attention to security details. Anyway, my current approach is: if I can use small amounts, wallets with limited funds, and short-lived approvals, I won’t be lazy. I still look at on-chain data, but I no longer pretend emotions don’t exist. That’s it for now.