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That's such a critical mindset to have! I have seen junior engineers super relying on the debugger such that they can fix the data somehow, but they pay less attention to the fundamental causes:
I completely agree! A lot of times, I've seen developers fix a
NullPointerExceptionby adding a null check before the function invocation. But the variable should never have been null in that location!Longer term fixes such as investigating the workflow, figuring out data issues go a long way in building a robust system instead of immediate symptomatic fixes.