Over the past couple of days, I’ve been watching AI agents run on-chain and interact. Honestly, automation is pretty appealing—but the more I watch, the more I feel this: the final fallback is still humans. For example, with authorization, the agent might—just to save time—give you an infinite limit, or constantly switch routes so that the slippage and fees get eaten up without you even noticing. And for things like cross-chain/bridging, if it gets stuck, it will just retry; if you’re not watching, it turns into “we’ll talk about it later,” and only when something really goes wrong do you realize.

Also, the community is still arguing about whether privacy coins, coin mixing, and compliance count as a “risk zone”… an agent doesn’t understand those gray areas. It only knows: “If it can be done, it’ll be done.” My colleague put it in one line: “Are you letting the robot take the blame for you?” When I think about it, yeah. With my own never-ending emotions on a roller coaster, if I lose money, I have to forcibly stop for a week—so the agent also needs to leave me a “handbrake,” otherwise it’s really easy to charge straight into going out of control.