[marssaxman]

I made heavy use of interactive debuggers earlier in my career. After several years working in environments where debuggers were broken, unhelpful, or not available, I completely lost the habit. It was not so much a cultural thing as simple practicality: logging always works. I'd rather maximize my limited brainpower by focusing on the software I'm building and thinking as little as possible about the tools I'm using.

It may be somewhat cultural in that influence from functional programming eventually changed the way I think about state and state transitions, leading me to design my code differently, reducing the amount of debugging I have to do and making it easier to do via logging.