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by userbinator 2600 days ago
It's a fascinating kind of phenomenon similar to ludditism to me where programmers reject the very premise of their own existence: that computers are capable of adding value or assisting with a task.

No, a computer can't assist you if you don't know what you want it to assist you with, and that is the whole premise of the main argument surrounding the anti-debugger/IDE/etc. thought, which can be summed up in one sentence: How can you tell the computer what to do, if you don't know exactly what you want it to do either?