For many of us, perhaps most of us, being forced into Pair Programming completely destroys the enjoyment and fun of programming. For people like me it's the difference between loving my job, or hating every second of it and not wanting to get up for work in the morning.
Frequent peer review and collaboration on important architectural decisions is sufficient. Sitting down and actually writing code together is unnecessary torture.
Imagine some legendary coder like Linus Torvalds or John Carmack writing the Linux Kernel or the Quake engine side by side with another dude at their keyboard all day every day. It's a fucking absurd and infantile concept.
Frequent peer review and collaboration on important architectural decisions is sufficient. Sitting down and actually writing code together is unnecessary torture.
Imagine some legendary coder like Linus Torvalds or John Carmack writing the Linux Kernel or the Quake engine side by side with another dude at their keyboard all day every day. It's a fucking absurd and infantile concept.