My experience has been the opposite. For example the project "dear imgui" has been created almost by a single person, Omar, and I find the code amazing. I hav

My experience has been the opposite. For example the project "dear imgui" has been created almost by a single person, Omar, and I find the code amazing. I have learned a lot from individuals like Norvig, Knuth, Carmack, Johnathan Blow or Casey Moratori or Rich Hickey or Paul Graham. Just reading the code they write. Pair programming? Seriously? Pair programming only works for me if the person you program with is already an expert. A mediocre one is going to make your program mediocre. Two dull knives don't make for a sharpened one.