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Re:Against Pair Programming by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:38AM (#30387885)
> Asynchronous workflows should be the default. Interruptions are almost universally bad,

What's great, though, about getting some work ready, creating the PR; and then waiting .. Minutes? Hours? ... days? who can tell? For a response.

if you're wanting "productive", that isn't it.

Re:Against Pair Programming by sascha_sl on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:06PM (#30389026)
But you're breaking someone else's productive time. The way around this is (1) having enough work prepared that you can start on something else and (2) cutting your PRs well enough for them to be entire (sub-)tasks. And if you can't, maybe you need to cut smaller tasks.
Re:Against Pair Programming by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:38PM (#30392708)
> But you're breaking someone else's productive time

Yes, the system's productivity is not about maximising the uninterrupted productivity of person A, or of person B either.

Sending a whole pile-up of PRs isn't a great solution either.