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Discussion on: Pull Requests Are Slowing You Down

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Ben Brazier

This article is focused on testing that needs to be done after deployment, these tests can't all be done on a branch without other painful side effects.

The issue that pair programming (one of the suggestions) is solving is the delay in waiting for PRs which can be hours, days, or weeks. Having a short feedback loop by making changes, deploying them, testing them, and repeating is basically instant when having the review happen as part of the programming.

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Valentin Nechayev

The issue that pair programming (one of the suggestions) is solving is the delay in waiting for PRs which can be hours, days, or weeks.

This means that the team has really fine setup in pair programming, which is quite rare. Typically, one participant gets tired after a few minutes and gets mentally sleeping.