[moonchrome]

This may work for simple tasks and mid level work. For complex and exploratory work I hate it.

I've been programming at various levels of abstractions and different stacks for 20 years. I often have very good intuition on diagnosing and solving technical problems. It's very hard to verbalize this, especially to people without the same background, it's intuition built on hours and nights of pain and debugging/googling/prototyping and I often need to search and REPL/prototype things to know I'm going in the right direction.

So I waste time dragging the other person along my mental path, and when I go into a wrong direction the cost is also increased by having to explain what I'm doing + the other person usually being annoyed at being dragged along for something they barely understood and it ends up being for nothing.