"Automate everything" is a disingenuous claim. You're simply replacing a couple of lines of scikit-learn with a couple of lines of your CLI tool. There is pretty much no benefit to using this.
There's most definitely a benefit - turning "writing the code yourself" into "updating a config file" is huge: I can now write code that creates config files, which is stupidly easy, instead of having to write code that writes code, which is stupidly hard.
The title is a complete misnomer, but the project itself is perfectly useful. As a programmer, any programming I _don't_ have to do is time and money saved.
Well. The user is writing a description in a human readable format. Then, the tool will take that description and start running the pipeline. From data reading, preprocessing until creating and evaluating the model. If this isn't automation, please define automation for me.
Also there are new features that I'm working on. The stable release was done this week.
From what I can tell it's a declarative framework (while most other common ones are imperative). And as generally with the tradeoffs of a declarative approach, if the data/model is easy the baked in assumption require less input, while if it's more complex your config files will be equally verbose and/or you will run into a wall. I don't see much automation there, just abstraction.
Interesting opinion. Well I must disagree in some points. First, yes sure the tool uses declarative paradigm, which is the goal of the project. If you want to use ML without writing code, then you will certainly not want an imperative framework.
Second, I must disagree that most other common frameworks are imperative. I would say it's a mix of declarative & imperative but certainly not imperative.
Finally, it's interesting how you see this as a just abstraction tool. I find other ML frameworks are more about abstraction since you are focusing on building your model but all details are hidden from you using the framework. Sure, igel is also about abstraction but to say it's JUST abstraction? mmm I find it not quite right, instead it's more about automating the stuff that you would write yourself using other frameworks.
At the end of the day, we all have different opinions and feedback is important ;)
