Comment by ibash
1 month ago
Maybe.
There’s also folks that pair because they’re a crutch for one or two other engineers. The other engineers never improve or are let go, but softly slow down the team.
There’s also the folks that pair because their code doesn’t make sense on its own. Or they have some config files they’ve refused to check into the repo, etc.
Pairing makes them feel valuable.
> There’s... folks that pair because they’re a crutch for one or two other engineers [who] never improve.
I can imagine this happening if neither pair is all that good a communicator, and if the seniormost never employs a little Socratic dialog every now and then.