Pair Programming: The Corporate Firing Squad

Ever been forced into "pair programming" by a manager who has no idea what coding actually involves? Yeah, that's not collaboration—that's just having five people breathing down your neck while Windows decides it's the perfect time for an update.

The poor dev is just trying to code with an audience of managers expecting miracles while the system is literally unusable. And the best part? Someone's already mentally writing your obituary when you inevitably fail to "fix bug" during this corporate theater of the absurd.

Pair programming works great in theory. In practice? It's just another word for "public execution by keyboard."