This is probably good advice, generally speaking. But I know there are exceptions to this. What I figured out very quickly is that most people end up needing to

This is probably good advice, generally speaking. But I know there are exceptions to this. What I figured out very quickly is that most people end up needing to take this approach due to the problems you described. I've been programming professionally for 10 years. And even in my early years, I could code all day without running and normally it works as I expected or if an error occurs it's quick to fix. Sorry if that sounds like bragging, but I'm sure there are others out there that are like this- just saying it's not an absolute truth, but I believe it to be generally true.