Comment by makeitdouble

In general agreement about the need to think it through, and she should be careful to not oraise the other extreme.

> "An hour of debugging/programming can save you minutes of thinking"

The trap so many dev fall into is assuming code behaves like they think it is. Or believing documentation or seemingly helpful comments. We really want to believe.

People's mental image is more often than not wrong, and debugging tremendously helps bridge the gap.