Respect. I think the singular power of an experienced programmer is being able to reason about high-level structure, while being able to deep-dive into any low

Respect. I think the singular power of an experienced programmer is being able to reason about high-level structure, while being able to deep-dive into any lower level detail, anywhere in the overall system, and therefore be able to carve out large swaths of problem space just by /thinking/. That's much faster than typing-and-executing-and-reading-logs.