Don't get me wrong, pairing has merits. Let me give you an example. I'm in the middle of going through type challenges in Typescript (https://github.com/type-challenges/type-challenges). If I knew absolutely nothing about types, pair-programming would have helped me get started. But some of these challenges teach me important insights about the Typescript typing system that take time to wrap my head around. You don't get this amount of system 2 focus when pair programming because pair programming is (to a large amount) communication.
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