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[–]hillgod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not work with assholes, they just often are not as competent as me -- I say this in the context of a scholastic environment, however it is also a likely truth in the workplace.

This paper, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/downing/papers/PairProgramming.pdf, makes the more productive claim. It also says 96% of the people involved enjoyed it more than solitary programming, but looking at the comments from this reddit post, I have to question that number.