In my experience this only works if the feedback cycle is quick. If working with a language like ruby or python and just refreshing webpages or running a script

In my experience this only works if the feedback cycle is quick. If working with a language like ruby or python and just refreshing webpages or running a script, no big deal. However, I then would have to wade through logger output to filter out the information I needed. I ultimately found I appreciated a debugger such as pry. Then I started writing for Android and the time between compilation, installation, running the app, and then reproducing the scenario was too long and a debugger was a godsend.