I had 27 jacks under a house once, and hired 10 guys to run them, because I had to coordinate the raising of the house with the leveling (one end was half a meter lower than the other), and I only wish that only cost me $10/hr. Each one of those guys cost me $10/hr, and I wasn't getting paid for the job we were doing because it was MY house.
Seems that $10/hr for a bot army would be pretty easy to justify if you put them to useful work.
Thanks!
I'm building at the moment in work and I was chatting to the builders about AI. They told me there are 3D printers building houses already in Ireland and that brick layers will be gone this decade. They say AI won't be able to fix a leak in your roof but we will see about that. Anyway it was just a mess around and it was $10 well spent. Raising a house is alien to us in Ireland because all our houses are made of concrete blocks. I'd say it's a tough business.
I like this phrasing, because that's where I think residential construction is going: where we plant a seed and guide the growth of our living home. I am working towards such development (on the downlow). I am far from even the first steps succeeding, and my recent recamping has delayed things even further, although paradoxically, it may have pared away false directions and brought me closer to these goals by focusing my efforts on those that remain to me.
I think fixing leaks will be a while. It's easier to destroy and start fresh than to R&R failing structures, as you well know, but I think maintenance will come and sooner than I expect.