> the mentee just saw things whizzing by on the screen and had no idea what happened That's a bad pairing experience, and I've had a handful of those in my las

> the mentee just saw things whizzing by on the screen and had no idea what happened That's a bad pairing experience, and I've had a handful of those in my last five years of pair programming. On occasion I've said, "Look, why don't you tell me what to do, and I'll drive?" But I think that the larger issue is that some developers are better at solo'ing than pair'ing, and there's nothing wrong with that, and at the company I worked (Pivotal), we'd find positions for the people who were more inclined to solo.