I’ve been working in programming for a few years and I think I really dislike Pair Programming; I understand how it is but I often find it mind-numbingly dull. I have a feeling I’m doing it wrong but I feel like as a part of a dev team tasks should be broken into discrete enough chunks that a single person can just blitz through the work… Maybe it’s just me, what are y’all thoughts on the matter?
It completely depends on what is being worked on. In my experience, it is well suited to nebulous work filled with unknowns, and Ill suited for mundane, well-defined work.
I will say pairing is quite exhausting, just in terms of how “on” you have to be for long periods of time. Running solo you can turn off and find that flow state.
Someone else will have a completely different opinion I’m sure. Yay software.