Well, hate is a strong word. Frankly, I don't see the point. There has never been a programming problem I've faced where using the debugger helped me. At all. In any language. Ever.
In 2000, I was lucky to be mentored by Ted Vessenes when we were working at Motorola. Ted is one of the most phenomenal programmers I've ever met and I know a bunch of brilliant people. Just to give you an idea of how freaking awesome he is, this is the guy that played so much Unreal Tournament that he got pissed at the AI and built a new one. Not a perfect player, but a perfect human player. His AI ended up being so good that he had to mess up his algorithms so that other people knew they were playing an AI. He literally passed the UT3 Turing Test.
Ted once told me "the most powerful debugging tool is print." (He actually told me this a bunch of times.) Or, restated - "If you need anything more than the print statement to debug a problem, then you don't understand the problem enough to solve it."
That means you, Mr. debugger. If I have to reach for you, that means I don't have enough context, knowledge, or whatever else I might need to solve the problem. In fact, I use my desire for a debugger as a litmus test. Anytime I want a debugger, I know I'm too stupid to fix it.
(Frankly, this goes for IDEs, too. If I need anything but vim to manage my project, then my project isn't organized properly.)
