>I don't know why people think communication skills are not required for programmers
That so significantly fails to resemble the claims being made that it strains credulity that it could be a good faith interpretation of the conversation.
>You won't be coding the correct thing unless you can talk about what you're doing.
Maybe, but that has no bearing on whether they need to be done at the same time, which they do not in just about work environment. I guess there's probably somewhere that does mandatory pair programming for everything, but I've certainly never seen it.
That so significantly fails to resemble the claims being made that it strains credulity that it could be a good faith interpretation of the conversation.
>You won't be coding the correct thing unless you can talk about what you're doing.
Maybe, but that has no bearing on whether they need to be done at the same time, which they do not in just about work environment. I guess there's probably somewhere that does mandatory pair programming for everything, but I've certainly never seen it.