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Judging by the comments here, nobody is doing pair programming / mob programming?

BossingAround 3y ago
Nobody is doing pair programming / mob programming. At best, some people are talking that it might be interesting to do.
- globular-toast 3y ago
  There are people who dream that programming looks like "team working programming" stock images[0]. I've no idea why they want this to be true but it wouldn't be the first time people have tried to force others into their bizarre dreams. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=team+working+programming&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=team+working+programming&iar=image...
spike021 3y ago
My team is fully remote and we definitely do pair programming from time to time. Not so much mob programming as much as mob code review on occasion to understand significant code changes and their related decisions. But not nearly to the degree as my old job pre-pandemic that was roughly 3 days a week all in the office and 2 days a week whatever you wanted.
baz00 3y ago
I don't think pair programming exists in reality. It is talked about a lot. Pair debugging does exist but only when stuff goes wrong. This is the vain hope that perhaps two people can make up one competent person when the shit has hit the fan.
- Ekaros 3y ago
  And quite often pair programming could be done by single programmer and inanimate object. Still. It does often work, specially if the other person has better knowledge of technology or code in question.
cebert 3y ago
You can do pair programming/debugging great remotely with VSCode or Visual Studio live share.
marcosdumay 3y ago
Mob programming is so easier in a call with shared desktops that at the beginning of the pandemics when we were wondering how we would work after people returned I was pushing for we never do it in a conference room again.
erik_seaberg 3y ago
I can’t even imagine creating my own ideas while someone in my personal space is talking. At best I can only sanity check his ideas.
sensanaty 3y ago
Pair programming is one of those things you hear about so often, but I've never worked somewhere where it was actually done. Most devs, myself definitely included, don't wanna sit there with another one while they work on a single problem. We both have our own respective tickets to worry about, who's got time to split entirely dedicating to 1 ticket that isn't yours? Instead if we hit a major roadblock we'll shoot out a message like "hey dude got a minute?" And hop on a huddle on slack, but I definitely wouldn't call that pair programming the way it's usually implied

Nobody is doing pair programming / mob programming. At best, some people are talking that it might be interesting to do.

globular-toast 3y ago
There are people who dream that programming looks like "team working programming" stock images[0]. I've no idea why they want this to be true but it wouldn't be the first time people have tried to force others into their bizarre dreams. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=team+working+programming&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=team+working+programming&iar=image...

spike021 3y ago

My team is fully remote and we definitely do pair programming from time to time. Not so much mob programming as much as mob code review on occasion to understand significant code changes and their related decisions. But not nearly to the degree as my old job pre-pandemic that was roughly 3 days a week all in the office and 2 days a week whatever you wanted.

baz00 3y ago

I don't think pair programming exists in reality. It is talked about a lot. Pair debugging does exist but only when stuff goes wrong. This is the vain hope that perhaps two people can make up one competent person when the shit has hit the fan.

Ekaros 3y ago
And quite often pair programming could be done by single programmer and inanimate object. Still. It does often work, specially if the other person has better knowledge of technology or code in question.

cebert 3y ago

You can do pair programming/debugging great remotely with VSCode or Visual Studio live share.

marcosdumay 3y ago

Mob programming is so easier in a call with shared desktops that at the beginning of the pandemics when we were wondering how we would work after people returned I was pushing for we never do it in a conference room again.

erik_seaberg 3y ago

I can’t even imagine creating my own ideas while someone in my personal space is talking. At best I can only sanity check his ideas.

sensanaty 3y ago

Pair programming is one of those things you hear about so often, but I've never worked somewhere where it was actually done. Most devs, myself definitely included, don't wanna sit there with another one while they work on a single problem. We both have our own respective tickets to worry about, who's got time to split entirely dedicating to 1 ticket that isn't yours? Instead if we hit a major roadblock we'll shoot out a message like "hey dude got a minute?" And hop on a huddle on slack, but I definitely wouldn't call that pair programming the way it's usually implied