These days I've been looking into MEV stuff again, basically on-chain "cutting in line" — whoever bids the highest gets inserted into the block first. I used to think it wasn't a big deal, but then I realized the worst affected are small-scale traders like me: slippage suddenly increases, even when I click to confirm a trade, I get sniped, and the extra cost is just tuition. You call it fair? On-chain rules are public, but the ordering isn't something "everyone has tools for."

Recently, AI agents and automated trading have been hyped up a lot, but it feels more like turning cutting in line into an assembly line... They say it's about freeing your hands, but no one seriously looks at the security details. I'm now more cautious — if I can set a limit order, I do; if I can split trades, I split; I'd rather be slow than be used as a liquidity ATM.

What I've learned isn't a trick, but rather to admit I can't beat the machines, and not to fight them head-on.