The past two days, I’ve seen everyone talking up AI Agents for automatically doing on-chain operations. To put it plainly, it can save a bit of effort—but if I really have to hand my money over for it to run, I’m still going to get sweaty palms.

Later, it struck me as pretty funny: I used to fall asleep with high leverage on.

Now I think there are three things that most need a human to stand guard:

First, “what exactly is it signing?” Approvals and “infinite allowance” type permissions are the kind of traps that are easy to miss at a glance.

Second, when it runs into slippage or MEV front-running, it will just charge ahead according to the script—people need to hit pause.

Third, the strategy logic—especially when you see chain games with inflation, and studios jump in as soon as they enter, starting a spiral in the coin price. I’d rather move slowly manually than let the Agent automatically keep repeating “add to the position.”

My current approach is pretty old-school: small amounts, split into multiple entries, pause for three seconds before each signature, and if the impulse hits, I just close the page.

That’s it for now.