I think you're missing the point of the quoted statement. A debugger is a great tool to help you understand unfamiliar code. Drop me in to a breakpoint in som

I think you're missing the point of the quoted statement. A debugger is a great tool to help you understand unfamiliar code. Drop me in to a breakpoint in somebody else's codebase, and chances are I'll quickly be able to figure out what's going on. Assuming you didn't write all the code in your organization, debugging is pretty much your most valuable skill. Be it looking at a stack trace and digging in by hand, or using the tools available to you. Your worth revolves around being able to immediately dig in to an unfamiliar system, find our what's wrong, and fix it. Debuggers help you do that.