> I know it's super popular to think of alone time for developers as sacred, but it leads to worse outcomes. As Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require e

> I know it's super popular to think of alone time for developers as sacred, but it leads to worse outcomes. As Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Have you attempted this in your organization? And measured tangible results? > Honestly, at this point, developers probably shouldn't ever be coding alone to begin with, but there are limits to what people who are used to being treated a certain way will tolerate. I have to be honest here: it depends a lot on the market you are hiring from and the caliber of programmers you employ. Sure, if you offshore or go for “best cost” programmers or bootcamp grads you should probably try pairing them up or at least expect to do quite a lot of handholding. But if you hire real engineers you won’t need to do that. Anyways, if you do try it… good luck keeping them in your org for more than a month!