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Re:Interruptions cost 23 minutes 15 seconds, right? by kaffekaka on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:45AM (#45001937)
Does this mean you as a pair were as productive as both of you individuals combined? Or that the pair was as productive as one individual?

Pair programming is twice as expensive so it needs to be twice a productive (quality, LOC, whatever) to make sense I guess.

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Re:Interruptions cost 23 minutes 15 seconds, right? by jiggawatts on Sunday August 24, 2025 @03:22AM (#45002090)
Two of us at one keyboard were as productive as the two of us separately combined.

I figured this was because typically while one person was coding the other would be researching. If you’re by yourself those are serial activities instead of parallel and the total workload is the same.

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