Re:Pair Programming Antipatterns
by okareaman on Sunday March 06, 2022 @05:29PM
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Can someone point me to a great work of software that was written by two people simualtaneously collaborating like Lennon and McCarthy writing songs? I never see any evidence given that pair programming is a better way to code.
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Some projects at Google such as MapReduce, Google File System and TensorFlow were written by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat while pair programming.
More details, in the form of a long form article, here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
Re:Pair Programming Antipatterns
by compiler-guy on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:54PM
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I don't believe pair programming is the only way to develop great code--not by a long shot--but there are certainly examples.
Early Google's success came from substantial pair programming by Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat.
Some say Google wouldn't have been successful without this pair working together how they did.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
The article paints them like a married couple doing a mind meld. That's impossible to duplicate by making programmers work as a pair. I'd expect the opposite to happen much more often; two programmers forced to share the same monitor and keyboard would start to dislike each other intensely.