WhitneyLand is probably not arguing against the claim you make in the large, but against the unsubstantiated argument that using IDEs and debuggers is more likely to lead you to that style of thinking than high latency variants.
One could just as easily hypothesize that these tools let you avoid thinking in the small, and help you form a big picture overview that would otherwise be difficult to understand.
One could just as easily hypothesize that these tools let you avoid thinking in the small, and help you form a big picture overview that would otherwise be difficult to understand.