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I found it to be very challenging to deep-dive into harder subjects when doing pairing

• kristiandupont 4y ago
  Why? To me, pairing is exhausting, so I don't like to do it too often but I almost always feel more than twice as productive and I feel like I am better able to dig into the hard stuff easier.
  • flavianh 4y ago
    Don't get me wrong, pairing has merits. Let me give you an example. I'm in the middle of going through type challenges in Typescript (https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges). If I knew absolutely nothing about types, pair-programming would have helped me get started. But some of these challenges teach me important insights about the Typescript typing system that take time to wrap my head around. You don't get this amount of system 2 focus when pair programming because pair programming is (to a large amount) communication.
  • flavianh 4y ago
    Your comment got me curious, so I've just asked one of the best developers at Google. If you want to tag along and make some noise: https://twitter.com/FlavianHautbois/status/1597230052143673344 https://twitter.com/FlavianHautbois/status/15972300521436733... (he has not replied yet) [FYI, I sent this comment to another thread as well]