Pair Programming

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Thawar calls pair programming the most underutilized engineering management tool
“It is the most underutilized management tool in engineering. Bar none. Like, it is just not used as much as it could be.”
Farhan Thawar Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 22:31 How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)
Two engineers pairing with an AI copilot outperforms solo AI coding
“I would still contend take that experience and add two humans together. So you've got like an AI co-pilot and humans, because what's happening is generating code and the two humans can look and say, oh, I know what it's trying to do. And either delete the code…”
Farhan Thawar Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 28:37 How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)
Helfand: Pair programming and switching pairs prevents bottleneck single ownership
“You want people pairing and switching pairs. So they're not single owners of the system. So when they have an opportunity to do something that could be really important to the company, like be on one of these isolated teams, they can kind of fade out and not b…”
Heidi Helfand Jan 18, 2024 ▶ 29:34 The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (Author of Dynamic Reteaming)
SAASTR Insight
Offering pair programming makes hiring tech interns significantly easier for startups
“We always had an easy easy opportunity to hire interns because interns always wanted a pair program because it's a great mentorship opportunity.”
Farhan Thawar Feb 12, 2021 ▶ 11:52 How to Build a Great Intern Program from Scratch | @shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar

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