We don’t do that, but we did a lot of pair programming when I started and my productivity was through the roof. The equivalent in commercial settings should be

We don’t do that, but we did a lot of pair programming when I started and my productivity was through the roof. The equivalent in commercial settings should be pair programming. I was on the headset with another programmer who would realize some concepts only as he put them in words and explained them to me. But the same thing was the case in academic settings. I could tackle some problems only in dialogue (again over headsets) and only in mutual we would even be able to come up with many solutions. I found that it only works in a pair settings and it breaks down in a setting of three. I think once we engage the speaking part of our brain we unlock something that makes us find solutions instead of take ambiguous shortcuts.