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it’s a counterintuitive argument but I completely agree
Can you imagine trying to democratize phd level mathematics? This boot camp shit has gotten insane.
So I do not think that this is a black/white situation.

I do agree, that any auto ml tool, cannot know what is the correct data sources for a specific use case, nor does it know the business case value of a specific model.

Auto ML should not replace humans, but work with them. I.e. it is a tool.

This tool can do the following:

1. Auto visualization.

2 Auto feature engineering.

3. Auto backtesting.

4. Auto training (with cost optimization).

5. Hyperparameter optimization.

6. Auto model packaging.

7. Autoload testing and auto security testing.

7. Auto deploy / scale / SLA.

8. Auto monitor.

The goal of AutoML is to save time and reduce risk. I am not sure why you want to do all of the above manually.

I'm all about AutoML but the best data scientists do what the author says: They try to understand the problem in detail first. I think fewer and fewer do this well.
Absolutely, auto ml cannot know your problem, as a word processor cannot know what book you want to write.

The goal of AutoML is to compress the time/money from idea/problem def to running models, it is not to replace the data scientist.