The Human Part of Machine Learning

There is a trend in machine learning right now towards automated machine learning pipelines. These automated machine learning pipes condense the model selection and optimization phase into a single step. They perform a random (or some sort of optimized) search over hyperparameters and models to pick the "best" set based on some evaluation metric. Basically all you have to do is plug in data. This automated process might appear to make things easier, but it can be a harmful practice.