Just now I got the itch again and sent an AI agent to perform on-chain “automatic rebalancing.” I’m right here, watching it circle around like crazy… To be blunt, it can compute routes pretty fast, but there are still a few traps that humans have to cover.

First is authorization and signing. Once it gets excited, it hands you an “unlimited approval.” I’d rather do an extra approval up front than clean up a pile of allowances later. Second is slippage and liquidity depth—especially on low-fee chains with lots of small pools. When the agent sees a “cheaper” path, it’s often because the route is backed by thinner liquidity. In the end, the executed price falls short, and it even makes you think the task is done. Third is cross-chain/bridges: things like state not syncing, getting stuck, and retrying… It will just stupidly wait, and I have to manually check which layer the transaction is actually stuck on.

Also, lately the group has been circulating rumors about stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and de-pegging. The more the emotions run high, the more likely the agent is to get led astray by “rules.” It only responds to condition triggers—it doesn’t understand the little bit of unease you have in your gut. So my current approach is: let it handle the dirty, heavy lifting (price checks, order splitting, simulation), while I press the key buttons (authorization amounts, the final trade, and entering/exiting stablecoins). For now, this is more stable.