Agreed. I've not found "pair programming" in this aspect to be useful. You end up just telling the person what to type when they get stuck and no one learns anything. I have a few people at work who want to work this way and I hate it, because I always feel like I just end up doing their work for them, it just ends up taking way longer because they're the one typing.
I, however, enjoy pair programming when it's with another dev who's equally adept at the task. It helps us work through architectural decisions quickly and if one of us notices a better way to do something, the other understands it quickly and follows through, or a discussion happens to hash it out, not just me telling them what to type.
As a mentor, I think it's more important to show a new dev around the codebase and let them get a feel for it, then let them at it. If they have questions, they can come to me after they've tried to figure it out themselves, but babysitting them all day does no one any good, they will never grow as a developer because they never learn to think for themselves.
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Agreed. I've not found "pair programming" in this aspect to be useful. You end up just telling the person what to type when they get stuck and no one learns anything. I have a few people at work who want to work this way and I hate it, because I always feel like I just end up doing their work for them, it just ends up taking way longer because they're the one typing.
I, however, enjoy pair programming when it's with another dev who's equally adept at the task. It helps us work through architectural decisions quickly and if one of us notices a better way to do something, the other understands it quickly and follows through, or a discussion happens to hash it out, not just me telling them what to type.
As a mentor, I think it's more important to show a new dev around the codebase and let them get a feel for it, then let them at it. If they have questions, they can come to me after they've tried to figure it out themselves, but babysitting them all day does no one any good, they will never grow as a developer because they never learn to think for themselves.