Never write at the limit of your talents! Remember: debugging is always twice as hard as writing code. And if you write as cleverly as you can, you won't be able to debug it anymore.🧠

Instead of dumbing down, KISS. :)

Write simple and elegant, not witty and "smart"-complicated.

Just like @vintprox said, KISS.

That's why I like to dumb everything down to sticks and stones, even though we have all those fancy frameworks, tools and methodologies.

KISS *A.L.W.A.Y.S* pays off.

Pfft my approach is "write as smart as possible, so you learn more and more when debugging"

But only on private projects *blush*

I have been coding for 3 years and wrote 5 web apps and dozens of the programs and never used a debugger. Am I even human?

This is pure gold ⭐

Writing code that looks smart doesn't mean write at your limit; it just means you're being a smartass. If it's not immediately obvious what the code does, it most probably can be better.

@beecorps guess you do PHP or javascript things where print_r or console.log works magically. Or may be it does not involve lot of different types of data manipulation.

Or else debugger is always easier to see how the data is transforming and flowing.