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Re:Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:07PM (#30860787)
Pairing is actually great in limited scenarios where one person is an expert and the other needs to ramp up quickly from their knowledge.

But at steady-state, it becomes a drain on efficiency.

In my experience, forced pairing is something that a small percentage of people love but it burns most others out. Every company I've seen try to force full-time or even most-time pairing on people has quickly lost a lot of their good developers. Although on the plus side, they at least have a system in place for quickly ramping up new developers as they join to fill all of the openings.

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Re:Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out by codr7 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:58PM (#30861335)
Even then, people are different. Pairing for me is good now and then, but I need time on my own in between to figure things out my way. It's like hybrid work, nice as an option. I once had a boss who tried to force me to pair program with him at his convenience to check up on me, had.
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