Ask HN: Automated machine learning products live up to the promise?

My company is looking at some “AI” products like datarobot and h2o driverless. The sales pitch for these is that they automate away a lot of the hard stuff of data science and will enable a less technical “business analyst” to effectively create and deploy machine learning models.

Curious if anyone can share experiences with this. Has it really worked out that way?

The team members that would use such a tool, should we buy one, are fairly data savvy, can do the data prep work/etl; and have good domain knowledge for the problems we would try to model. wondering if they could be successful at the model building work with a tool like this despite lacking real undestanding / know how to do such work “manually”.