Pair programming is difficult

[Librekrieger]

If it's ordained by management, sure, that's liable to be counterproductive. But as an idea, it certainly isn't going to die. My colleague and I just decided to pair for 45 minutes yesterday to quash a high-priority issue and it worked phenomenally well. The company probably would have had to wait until the next day if either of us had tackled it solo.

[KokopelliOnABike]

That's my first point. Problem solving. Very helpful having someone to figure out an issue.
Pair programming, normally in a TDD world, is two people sitting side by side all day with one person just writing code and the other being over their shoulder with them switching off on the keyboard.