I've been pair programming for about 6 weeks now, over Discord. The calling and screen sharing functionalities work so well that my partners and I can join and part quickly and easily. We can get deeply into what we're doing individually. But collaboratively, we can solve problems that neither of us can do alone.

I like this virtual setup for multi-user interaction a lot, and hope more tools, even ones specific to virtual programming environments, come for it soon. Tuple's making a remote sharing tool that looks interesting. What comes to mind for me is a shared 3D Wayland environment, like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjuPn7MXMs so, hopefully more people will start focusing on https://github.com/way-cooler/way-cooler and other Rust desktop/handheld application level development.

My best work is when I go off on wild tangents that might not work out (and some don't). I also tend to build wild and then refactor to cleanup later. I'd hate to put someone else through that all the time and I doubt they'd even let me.

I pair. The way I make up for getting into the zone while soloing is to get into the zone as frequently or more frequently in a pair.

It's possible to get in the zone in a pair. It's much more difficult, though.