Despair all you like. Pair programming stinks. You can pretend it’s a magical experience where all parties are teaching and learning and having a wonderful ti

Despair all you like. Pair programming stinks. You can pretend it’s a magical experience where all parties are teaching and learning and having a wonderful time. In the real world it’s an inconvenience where one person invades your personal space, hovers over your shoulder on your desk with no space as you awkwardly work through who knows what and establish a pattern of dominance as one person clearly knows more than the other and will just do the work themselves while the other watches OR question every single thing typed to the bemused person at the keyboard. No personal bonds are formed during this intrusive process.