Lately, I’ve been looking into things involving AI agents interacting with on-chain systems, and I feel they really can take care of the dirty work—things like “pushing buttons, calculating gas, and executing in batches.” But, to be blunt, there are still a few steps that require humans to backstop: permission boundaries—how much authorization you’re actually giving it; exception handling—how you stop when it gets stuck, during reorgs, or if a smart contract call rolls back; and the most annoying part—the “signature moment”—are you really bold enough to fully let go?

In the past couple of days, before and after that mainstream chain’s upgrade, the group has been guessing whether projects will migrate. What I care about more is a signal: when external shocks like upgrades hit, will the agent treat “continue executing by default” as a given? Automation’s biggest fear isn’t that it’s slow—it’s that, when you’re not watching, it will confidently do the wrong thing… My current approach is pretty conservative: anything that can be automated is only given small, revocable permissions, while the bigger moves I handle myself.