Lately, people keep asking me whether blockchain builders and bundlers need to understand everything.

I feel that retail investors only need to understand enough to protect themselves.
To put it simply, just remember: the swap you see isn't necessarily "queued in order,"
others can bundle a series of transactions into the same block, and casually insert some in front or behind you,
making you pay more slippage or get less.

So my bottom line is three points:
don't use outrageous slippage;
try to use reliable routing/private ordering (at least don't expose your intentions openly in public pools);
if the transaction price looks strange, stop first, don't force it through.
As for studying how builders auction or how to assemble bundles, it doesn't really help much in operation,
and the more you look, the more anxious you get.

My colleagues have been talking about AI agents automatically running cross-chain interactions these days,
and hearing that makes me a bit cold: anyone can tell a story, but no one is backing your safety.
Anyway, the hotter the market gets, the more I want to slow down—so for now, that's how it is.