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I'm not sure about pair programming. I never really understood why we stop at two people. Why not have 3 or 5 people working together? And indeed that's what we
by Abroszka 5y ago
I'm not sure about pair programming. I never really understood why we stop at two people. Why not have 3 or 5 people working together? And indeed that's what we do when for example doing system design and it's incredibly useful.
Writing mundane code in pairs sounds like a brute force solution that should be solved by training, higher quality code scanners or other code quality tools.
- Icathian 5y agoHaving larger groups collaborate like that is called "mob programming". I'm not sure how popular it actually is but I see it talked about on HN and Reddit all the time.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI have a friend currently doing it. It just lets him work on his masters degree all day.