In general I agree. I've found pair programming to be immensely beneficial and productive for some cases. I wouldn't go so far as to say recurring sessions are

In general I agree. I've found pair programming to be immensely beneficial and productive for some cases. I wouldn't go so far as to say recurring sessions are always bad, but I do think that not all tasks benefit from having a pair work on it. When I have been very attuned with my teammates in terms of the system we were building and how we were building then pairing sessions became much less valuable on work that was very low novelty and was some iteration of a well-established pattern.