Recently, everyone’s been hyping AI Agents as a complete, end-to-end automated on-chain solution. I’m pretty tempted, but if I truly let it run on its own, someone still needs to stand by as backup. The step most likely to go wrong is choosing the chain or the routing: when gas suddenly spikes or the block cadence shifts, the Agent may stupidly keep chasing failed transactions and burning money. And then there are authorizations, contract upgrades, cross-chain bridges—one mistaken click, and it’s not something a “retry” can solve.

Not to mention MEV… even now, retail users are complaining that the validator/ordering setup is unfair. No matter how smart the Agent is, it still has to deal with the “mystical” question of who gets placed behind you in line. My approach is still: let it run, but I take screenshots of the key operations first. If something really goes wrong, at least I’ll know how I ended up getting wrecked. Anyway, don’t treat automation like a get-out-of-jail-free card.