[cgh]

In the real world, programmers are brought into projects with literally millions of lines of code that have been developed over years or decades by tens or hundreds of programmers. They are under intense time pressure to fix bugs that they likely didn’t create. This is normal and debuggers are invaluable. No offence, but what you’re describing is a lovely ideal that only exists if you work mostly alone or on small things.

[carapace]

I hear you: people have been "doing it wrong" voluminously and for a long time. Ergo, fancy debuggers come in handy.

> This is normal...

That's the part that I have a problem with. We have leavened our entire complex civilization with software, it's important to get it right.