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That's very interesting, thanks for your perspective. I was familiar with Piper (from having skimmed the very article you linked), but didn't go much in depth about how it impacts dev environment.

Debugging, I tend to agree with you to some extent - I'm even 'on the record' with friends on saying that debugging should 'come from the mind' before mindlessly stepping through a debugger. Being able to do it, however, may be a valuable tool to help you 'refresh your mental model' of the code, or even to build the mental model in the first place when you are first learning a new system.

Building (Bazel) - Nice! Typically, when doing development on a compiled system, would you retrieve the build back from Bazel/Blaze to 'play around' with it locally? Or is most development test-driven? If the former, how many builds did you do on a typical day? If you're able/willing to share, of course.