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It takes all types, I guess. I would sooner quit a job than pair program 20% of the time, much less 100%. I do my best work alone, in the dark, in the middle of
by quotemstr 10y ago
It takes all types, I guess. I would sooner quit a job than pair program 20% of the time, much less 100%. I do my best work alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night. I don't think there's a tech company on earth that could pay me enough to spend dozens of hours each week sharing a keyboard and monitor with someone.
- twic 10y agoActually, a common way to do pairing these days is to give each person their own keyboard and monitor, just connected to the same computer. You probably still wouldn't like it much, sadly!
- brokenmachine 10y agoI agree 100%. One of the parts of my job that I dislike is watching people mouse around on the screen and try to type. There's something so frustrating about tracking someone else's mouse movements and typing and the impotent watching when you know where they're meant to click or what they're trying to type, but seeing them flail around, that I find very unpleasant. Also deflecting people's ideas I would find very tiring, having to explain why you don't want to do something you know is a bad idea, or explain why something you want to do is a good idea. Much more efficient to just do it in the best way you can think of, then have a code review later. Seems like a waste of resources to limit two people to doing the one job.
- quotemstr 10y ago> Much more efficient to just do it in the best way you can think of, then have a code review later. That's especially true on those occasions that you do something nobody believes is possible.