I've heard this argument a lot, but I've never really bought it. It implies most bugs can be avoided by being super careful. Most bugs aren't a result of carele

I've heard this argument a lot, but I've never really bought it. It implies most bugs can be avoided by being super careful. Most bugs aren't a result of carelessness, and if you spend 20 hours staring at each line of code you write, I guarantee you'll still write software with bugs. The only thing the debugger changes is how fast you find it. And I say this working in an area where debuggers either kind of suck or are limited (graphics programming), so I have plenty of experience working on complex systems with no debugger. Believe me, I do this exact painstaking thinking when I write a shader (no break points or even print statements), and yet the shader code I write is about the same quality as any other code I write, it just takes longer.