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I don't think anyone's brain is wired for pair programming. Maybe it's tolerable for people who are in early years of their programming career and are also writing in very inexpressive languages to spend too much time dealing with the code, still learning languages and approaches to writing, structuring code, rather than deeply thinking, exploring. Maybe some people just see this as an opportunity to spend more time on learning about writing code, maybe socializing, maybe even an opportunity to avoid doing hard work. But it's just not compatible with programming in general and for many it's more like plain and simple abuse, an attempt to pressure them to work harder.