Yesterday I looked at an AI Agent project that was hyped to the sky, claiming it can automatically perform on-chain interactions, automatically rebalance, and automatically run governance voting. I’m thinking: isn’t this just a script wrapped in a GPT shell? When it comes time to actually put things on-chain, gas fee estimates can be off, contract permissions weren’t checked, and once you bump into compliance boundaries for mixing protocols, everything blows up. Which of these problems can AI truly cover for you?

Discussions about privacy coins and mixers have been getting heated again lately. In the community, some people shout “compliance is betrayal,” while others say “if it’s not compliant, there’s no liquidity.” Put plainly, in this kind of gray area, AI can’t possibly help you judge either—it doesn’t even reliably know whether it should use a mixer, so why would you expect it to make the decision for you?

What I learned isn’t a technique—it’s “never hand the handle of the knife to a machine.” For all the traps in on-chain interactions, in the end, it still takes a human watching over it.