>> slower than having everyone work on their own problems That’s fascinating, i recognise every bit of everything else you said but in my experience this was t

>> slower than having everyone work on their own problems That’s fascinating, i recognise every bit of everything else you said but in my experience this was the golden redeeming quality - velocity of correct code is massively (maybe 4x) sped up. Maybe the difference is overall - pairing becomes too tiring so you might be extremely productive but the short periods of it mean that the slow and steady solo approach wins out because you can do it for longer.