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by g051051 1869 days ago
Fundamentally, if two people want to pair, and can meet their obligations as far as delivering work (produce two or more times the work than what's expected of an individual), then feel free. At the end of the day, I don't care how you do your work, any more than I'd dictate which IDE you use. The biggest concern that I'd have in a group with pair programmers is the noise from the constant talking, but most places don't care about having a quiet working environment these days.

However, with pretty much anything like this, just forcing it down everyone's throat is a recipe for disaster. Probably the most confusing thing about the original article was the statements "This was one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself, socially and emotionally, and it produced some great software", followed by "It burned me out" and "I was on short term disability due to cognitive impairment for several months of 2020, and I’m still recovering my old attention span, executive function, and emotional management". Huh?

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He realizes the powerful benefits of the technique, but he is an introvert and finds sustained social interaction tiring and stressful for his neurology.