The case in support of pair-programming is the fact that feedback exchange happens early, while code is moldable. Compounding ideas and pooling knowledge is whe

The case in support of pair-programming is the fact that feedback exchange happens early, while code is moldable. Compounding ideas and pooling knowledge is where collaboration really shines. There is of course the tradeoff that this way of working is inherently synchronous, taking away the flexibility of thinking about a problem at your own time. Developers have different cadences of coding/thinking, after all.