[schmidtleonard]

> If you have a fairly shallow bug ... But most of the bugs that I see aren't that shallow

Oh come off it, debuggers shine the brightest when there are lots of unknown unknowns. With printf debugging you can peel back exactly one layer at a time (oops, need to log one more thing) whereas with a debugger you can slice through the Gordian knot.

[dingnuts]

Try using a debugger to debug a globally distributed system that humans aren't given access to for security reasons in a post mortem and then "come off it" yourself

[schmidtleonard]

Is that the only kind of difficulty you can think of? Lol.

[nsteel]

I agree with this comment but you really didn't need the first 4 words.