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by lazyasciiart 1763 days ago
This is like advocating to get rid of log statements because they might not log the cause of the next bug.
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No, it's like advocating to get rid of log statements because they are like an overflowing sewer of data obscuring and distracting from the real cause of the bug. But you can't even figure out if there's a message in the log because it takes an hour to sort through the firehose of messages you know aren't relevant, but there they are, filling up your logs.

The above goes double if you're running Java and your logs include stacktraces spanning 300 lines.