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Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008
Pair programming is great for knowledge transfer. I use it all the time when I'm bringing new team members up to speed on our codebase, or when someone is terminally blocked, or when code review becomes highly involved and it becomes more practical to have a conversation than to pass notes around. We don't swap roles on a timer or anything, usually I hang back and navigate while they type, unless there's something really tedious and not-very-educational we need to get through, in which case I tend to take over and bash the code out at high speed.

It's just a tool in the toolbox, though. Definitely worth having as an option, but not a way of life. I also find it really exhausting.

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