>These two types of work were first identified, to my knowledge, by the programmer and essayist Paul Graham my sweet summer children, private offices for every

>These two types of work were first identified, to my knowledge, by the programmer and essayist Paul Graham my sweet summer children, private offices for every programmer was a thing at least as far back as around 1980, and at that time we didn't think "oh, we've just identified the need for this." I was myself already noticing that I also liked working in a "bullpen" (big room, terminals all plugged into shared computer) and swapping jokes, syntax tips, and the like with my neighbors. Actually, when I read about people on here today talking about cli stuff, I think "it only seems a mess to you because you don't have more experienced folks sitting next to you in the bullpen"