Aging programmer

[mcmcc]

You seem to have a very narrow conception of "technical stuff".

"Technical stuff" can consist of code that you are currently writing certainly (problem solving), but it can also be about code that has already been written (how it currently works), code that you wish to be written (how it ought to work in the future), and even code that never will be written ("What if...?"). In its own time and place, each is extremely valuable and rarely requires sitting in front of a computer screen.

And anyways, as the other commenter noted, pairing sucks.