[6510]

I have very low expectations for $2 per hour. If I would feel the need to use such service I would expect them to cut all corners. If you have a subscription for a decent LLM, know how to get my data into it and know how to write a prompt that does the job you might have 3 skills I don't or I might not have time to do it.

If the lawn looks great you get to do it again. I could ask the guy you send how much you are paying him and I could ask you how much the mower costs but it wouldn't necessarily be a good use of my time.

[tsimionescu]

Say you notice they come in the morning, put a small machine on the grass, hit a button, and leave and come back 4h later to pick up the machine and charge you - wouldn't you be at least curious to see how much this machine costs? Or if there was another company that would lease such machines for much less than what you paid per hour, wouldn't you possibly prefer to contract them, even if you may have to pick up and drop off the auto lawn mower yourself?

And conversely, say that the person or machine that you paid to mow the lawn instead drenches your yard in herbicide and then salts the earth. Or vice versa, it starts planting weed seeds, or brings a bunch of ticks in the grass etc. You would probably not be happy to let this process finish and then say "oh well, guess I won't be hiring them again!" and just move on.

[6510]

The whole point of delegation is to free up time to do something else. There is a store here where the owner always runs around like a madman. I ask him why he doesn't have his employees do all those things (they mostly stand idle chatting) He said: Then I have to explain everything and they will probably do it wrong.

If I'm getting a $200 mowing bill it could be worth looking at the machines. If I pay you $4 per week I wouldn't worry about it.