[paulgb]

I think that's DataRobot's business model, although I think they run more sophisticated models as well. It was 5+ years ago that I spoke to them but IIRC they were able to compete pretty well in Kaggle competitions with a fairly hands-off algorithm.

[lsorber]

Could you perhaps point me to a Kaggle competition where they perform well with a hands-off approach?

[paulgb]

I'm afraid I can't. Take it with a grain of salt, I only mention it because it was the anecdote that stood out in my memory for 5+ years :)