On Pair Programming
I read through this quickly, but I couldn&#x27;t find any mention of pair programming not being suitable for sensitive and introverted people - especially those that suffer from anxiety and other mental illnesses that can be made worse by the stress of pair programming.<p>Whilst the article mentions that it &quot;can be hard and stressful&quot; there is still the assumption that most people are more or less the same in terms of mental resilience, that most people would be okay and that everybody should &quot;give it a go&quot;. I don&#x27;t feel that&#x27;s true at all, and certainly I&#x27;m one of those people that would be made ill by an environment of constant forced pair programming _even though_ I manage to hold down a job, appear &quot;fairly normal&quot; from the outside and do pretty well as a mostly solo programmer.