I still don't really get pair programming. Maybe it's my inner introvert, but it sounds really draining. And what about all of the non-programming time during the day?

I mean, today I spent time:

- Digging into the analysts dashboards for some time series that seemed off. Generated a plot from my own metrics stash, filed a bug w/ the analysts about the differences. Replied to some doc comments saying that I'd done so.

- Code review of a few changes.

- Write a quick jupyter notebook (well, colab) analyzing a different problem. Basically reading the data for an example into the notebook, writing a bit of code to visualize it, fiddle until I had some sense of what the problem was.

- Decide I should regenerate a dataset with some different processing. Spent maybe an hour doing the code changes and getting them reviewed. Then build the binary, run it to generate a dataset, then launch a few-hour processing job to see if it works better.

- Write some notes on how I should decide if the new version is better than the old version.

- Fire off email to a few people. Asked one person about existing viz tools, updated another about my earlier colab experiments and asking if they know of anyone who's done a similar analysis.

Out of all this, I think pair programming would have maybe been tolerable for a bit in the middle when I was actually making code changes, but everything else was either based on huge amounts of internal context or was completely ephemeral analysis.

I think I must be doing a different kind of thing. :-)