>Whilst I don't enjoy people watching me as I work, it's not one of the root fears for me, because I don't see pair programming as being a watching vs doing equation.
Precisely, pair programming is mostly about reducing the feedback loop and leveraging different modes of thinking (low- vs. high-level, driver vs. navigator[1]). I think this is just one of the things that are a bit hard for people without pairing (or XP) experience to grok.
Precisely, pair programming is mostly about reducing the feedback loop and leveraging different modes of thinking (low- vs. high-level, driver vs. navigator[1]). I think this is just one of the things that are a bit hard for people without pairing (or XP) experience to grok.
How this looks in practice: https://sonnet.io/posts/snakes/
[1] https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html