Not my experience at all. Perhaps you simply worked with developers that were better than you? So your productivity seemed to improve because they took more of

Not my experience at all. Perhaps you simply worked with developers that were better than you? So your productivity seemed to improve because they took more of the load? No offence but it could be a possibility. In my experience, doing pair programming etc. is great fun but it most definitely slows me down. I constantly have to explain why it makes sense to do X and why individual steps work.