I have always found pair programming incredibly frustrating and frankly exhausting, both when driving and navigating.
It's a useful tool, for sure. Bringing new people on to a team or in to working with code they've not touched before, or to help spread knowledge around a team. But I loathe using it any more than I have to.
I also take issue with tone of the article as well, it's condescending as hell.
"If you're not comfortable pair programming, why not go off and play around with a pet project, then maybe you'll be good enough to code in front of somebody else!".
There's supposed to be joy involved?!
I have always found pair programming incredibly frustrating and frankly exhausting, both when driving and navigating.
It's a useful tool, for sure. Bringing new people on to a team or in to working with code they've not touched before, or to help spread knowledge around a team. But I loathe using it any more than I have to.
I also take issue with tone of the article as well, it's condescending as hell.
"If you're not comfortable pair programming, why not go off and play around with a pet project, then maybe you'll be good enough to code in front of somebody else!".