Comment by TeMPOraL

Try doing some of that blue-collar work yourself and enlist help of SOTA models for the task. I think it's not that far off. Your AI plumber may not look like a humanoid, and may not have the same hands that can "feel" the pipe and ears that can "hear", but they can hit the pipe with precise amount of force, and run Python in their head to analyze spectrogram, and learn much more from that than you could with your natural senses.

You can test this premise today. I already do, doing repairs around the house; the ability to send thermal cam photos or spectrograms (or just raw recordings) to Claude turns my phone into a tricorder with extra steps.