I'm not very good at competing with others on hand speed, but after watching so many on-chain transactions, I really feel this: you think you're “arbitraging,” but most of the time you're just paying for someone else’s sandwich… Especially when someone impulsively hits swap, sets slippage a bit bigger, and in effect raises their hand to say, “Come eat me.” In plain terms, the opportunity isn’t in the one second you spot the price difference—it’s in whether you can hide yourself from the public mempool, tighten your execution route, or simply not go抢.

Recently, AI Agents and automated trading have been hyped to the heavens, but I’m actually more concerned with whether they help you secure safety—or instead deliver you more stably into the MEV factory. Automation can make things easier, but it might just turn “paying tuition” into “charging by the minute.” Anyway, I’d rather make fewer trades now than have every trade turn into a fee-sample that’s doing someone else’s homework.