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I liked the optimistic twist on this, Kernighan's Lever: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/

Kernighan's Law means that you're continually forcing yourself to level-up in order to debug your own code. It prevents stagnation.

Use caution in multi-developer environments. :-)

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Or it could mean, be too stupid for complex tools, be dumb and choose [simplicity].

[simplicity]: https://github.com/dosyago/dumbass

Personally I find the original law inspiring.

A related interpretation: your debugging tools need to be at least as good as your programming tools. Ideally, better.

Debugging a K8 cluster with print statements is hopeless, but if the cleverest code you can write in a dumb editor is going through a good test suite and profiler, you might be fine. How many as-clever-as-possible optimization tricks have been made viable by Valgrind?

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