Depends on the definition of pair programming imo. Bad definition (the one I encountered in school): two people of about the same skill level sitting at one co

Depends on the definition of pair programming imo. Bad definition (the one I encountered in school): two people of about the same skill level sitting at one computer and programming together. I hated it, akin to my hate of backseat drivers. Good definition (the one I encountered at my workplace): as a junior engineer, I was tasked with implementing this tricky caching thing in one of our systems that I had zero previous experience with. One of our senior engineers was tasked with helping me with that. I would implement as much as I could myself, and when I get stuck, the senior would either give me hints on how to get unstuck or program some parts himself while explaining to me how and why he did things a certain way. This helped me out tremendously in my skill development and got me running confidently in our codebase really quickly.