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Pair Programming in the Age of Agents
I’ve come to the conclusion though that what people call “pairing” with an LLM is more the illusion of pairing than the real thing. Ultimately, it’s more of a siren than an active collaborator. It’s nothing but your thoughts, reflected back off of a bazillion vectors. That’s not to say it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s not the same thing.