Pair programming: The most underutilized programming tool in engineering, according to Farhan Thawar, Head of Eng at Shopify

@Shopify Here's our full conversation:

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@garrytan @fnthawar @Shopify To add - AI assisted coding is really just pair programming with an increasingly skilled, absent minded genius - so this is absolutely the right muscle to develop going forward

@garrytan @fnthawar @Shopify Exactly. We chat about this on the pod.

@fnthawar @Shopify So glad to see more leaders talking about pair programming. If you want to know how to do it well remotely, @qcoding and I gave a talk on the subject in the middle of the pandemic combining both of our experiences doing it for years:

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@fnthawar @Shopify AI can enhance pair programming efficiency significantly.

@fnthawar @Shopify I have only done this during hackathons, and it worked really well!

@fnthawar @Shopify I would rather have needles driven into my head.

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@fnthawar @Shopify @lennysan Check out how Menlo Innovations do pair programming. They also have a concept of High-Tech Anthropologists design.