Re:Zed: Delta
by zeryx on Thursday August 13, 2026 @09:42AM
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You might be working on much smaller and well constrained problems, pair programming works well when the problem is unconstrained with many complex and interconnected layees
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Maybe it does for you, but everyone is different. It is annoying (and sad) to see both sides asserting their experiences as universal truths.
I cannot stand pair programming, but I don't begrudge that it might work for some.
And for some of us it works great… sometimes.
Like, not as a rule. There are times when it would be helpful to have my trusted coworker helping to work through something. The answers aren’t all obvious and we don’t know exactly how it’s going to go. We’ll feel it out as we go. He has better instincts for some stuff and I have better ones for others. We’ll get there better and faster pairing.
But most of the time we have our own stuff to do and have our respective things well in hand. Then there’s no reason to force a pair programming situation.