[lainproliant]

I like sharing ideas with someone while we're both coding together. I think "pair programming" works a lot better when two people sit down and work together on different parts of the same problem.

Example: Alice is building the front-end for a product search page. Bob is building the product search APIs on the back-end. Alice and Bob working together can share immediate feedback on each other's designs and implementations, and work out any tiny ambiguities that weren't covered by whatever specification they previously agreed on.

I think some of the best software dev experiences in my career have come from this style of collaboration.