Pairing all day, every day is a relatively rare version of pair programming. In every case I’ve seen, pair programming was only done for a few hours a day or in

Pairing all day, every day is a relatively rare version of pair programming. In every case I’ve seen, pair programming was only done for a few hours a day or in select circumstances such as architecting a system. Browsing the comments, that seems to agree with what most people have experienced at their jobs, with the exception of a few horror stories about companies that forced 8-hour per day pairing and paid the price for it.