At my first job I mandatorily pair programmed with someone every day for months and we had very different personalities. Neither he nor I wanted to and the resu

At my first job I mandatorily pair programmed with someone every day for months and we had very different personalities. Neither he nor I wanted to and the result was we wore on each other, decorum broke down and the code itself was weaker because we would take turns ignoring the situation to get what few moments of peace we could in the day. We both left that company around our 1-year mark even though otherwise it wasn't bad got out at 5pm every day, catered lunch sometimes etc. I understand it is useful in certain situations but that largely turned me off from it as a concept and I still doubt the benefits when used "properly". Pair programming is a very intense experience and had it stopped a few weeks in that situation then maybe my thoughts on it would be different.