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have you ever done pair programming? like actually sit there and be forced to do it? It's absolutely infuriating to anyone who values anything. I spent 20min tr
by chasd00 3y ago
have you ever done pair programming? like actually sit there and be forced to do it? It's absolutely infuriating to anyone who values anything. I spent 20min trying to convince my "pair" that it was ok for a comment to be a sentence fragment and not a complete sentence. Every keystroke is the same conversation over and over. After that experience, i pulled rank and said i will never pair program again and haven't since.
- skulk 3y ago> It's absolutely infuriating to anyone who values anything It's not really your place to say what's infuriating to others when your pair programming experience with a _single_ (somewhat neurotic) programmer was irritating. In my experience, pair programming has been a delightful two-way share of ideas that was both refreshing and productive (but I'm not going to claim universality or such an experience). Pair programming probably does suck when one side is extremely impatient and overbearing.
- Zigurd 3y agoIt can be terrible in practice. Same with test driven development, also annoying if instituted by proclamation. A lot of code doesn't need these formalisms. By that I mean: Do it very carefully in circumstances where there is clear justification, and with an adequate budget for tooling and support. These techniques were invented before there was good tooling to support them, which makes bad outcomes a lot more likely.
- twh270 3y agoPairing does not work if you believe you have to convince the other person that you are right. What you did wasn't "pair programming", it was an argument.
- starcraft2wol 3y agoIt sounds like you were just using your pair to type for you.