Recently I tried to make my goals smaller—but ended up sticking with them for longer.

In the past, I always thought, “This round has to double,” “Next year I must hedge well.” As a result, every time the market moved, I panicked so badly that I wanted to check on-chain every minute. Later, I told myself: rebalance once a week, and in the rest of the time, water when it needs watering and prune when it needs pruning.

Now there are more and more AI Agents, and on-chain interactions are starting to be automated too. With things like the airdrop points systems, many people run scripts to farm it; honestly, machines really are faster than humans. But some steps are beyond what machines can handle—for example, anti-bot/anti-sybil strategies. Many task platforms are getting stricter the more they try to prevent abuse, and in those cases, manual operation can actually reduce false positives. Also, in extreme market conditions—when gas suddenly spikes and transactions get stuck—Agents are prone to repeated failures. That’s when a human still needs to take a look, manually tweak parameters, or simply pause.

I’ve always believed that on-chain decisions that require judging “whether it’s worth it” and accepting the consequences ultimately still need humans to backstop them. An Agent can help with execution, but the sense of direction and discipline still have to be watched by yourself. Like potted plants: you can automate watering, but pruning and repotting are still things you have to do yourself.