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As a side-effect of this, I got to experience "AI" coding assistants.

I am staying away from that tech because it is a net-negative societally, environmentally, legally, ethically and all-around, but my coworker is using it (with encouragement from management who are in love with the idea).

So #Copilot pops up in our #PairProgramming sessions.

I have to admit the code and commit message suggestions it makes are surprisingly good. It helps. If you ignore the big picture, it would be tempting.

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On the tooling side, we are not using any special #PairProgramming software yet, and I have a hunch that we won't.

You can get very far with very little friction with just screen sharing over a #Slack huddle. We can talk to each-other, both see what the "driver" is seeing, we cannot type into the editor at the same time, but the "watcher" can draw on the screen.

Attempted a pair coding session for the first time to drill into an old tangled code and it was successful. Best rule I take out of this - have clear objectives. Being clear that "we see if and want can we improve at all" was the key to come out with "something" and call it a day. #pairprogramming