Comment by lapcat
1 month ago
> I don't think your opinion is educated, or based on any experience working on a functioning team, let alone a high-functioning one.
That's an incredible assumption about me. What is your empirical justification for such an insulting claim?
> Any team working on non-trivial projects does stumble upon critical bugs that are hard to catch or features that are faster to roll out if a subject matter expert sits down with someone to show them the ropes.
Again you're arguing something that I never disagreed with. Indeed I explicitly advocated spending some % of time pairing.
> That's an incredible assumption about me.
Not really. You introduce yourself to the world by the statements and opinions you express. Advocating for firing everyone in a hypothetical team because of a hypothetical scenario where hypothetical team members help each other out is a business card of your level of experience, expertise and awareness.
> Advocating for firing everyone in a hypothetical team because of a hypothetical scenario where hypothetical team members help each other out
That's not the hypothetical scenario described. Rather, the hypothetical scenario is that all of the other engineers are in constant need of babysitting by the one adult in the room, Tim. There was no indication given that, other than Tim, team members are helping out "each other", or that anyone else is helping Tim. If the team members are peers, then why is Tim disproportionately pairing, 100% of his time?