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Discussion on: What's your experience with pair programming?

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Eljay-Adobe

If you are co-located, and working with someone who is working on the same thing you are, and you both practice reasonable personal hygiene, and you both have compatible ideas of how to go about developing software...

...that can work well. I've done it for two stretches, each stretch about a month long. It was enjoyable.

With the pandemic, and everyone on the team working-from-home, pair programming doesn't seem like a good fit for the situation.