In my personal (and therefore, limited) experience, engagement is much harder to get in the fediverse. I hope it improves, but it’s not easy to find people you don’t know in order to follow them, and vice versa.

Or we could just work remotely, which is far more productive.

Oh stop, this is just more propaganda. All of the data shows remote work is more productive and wildly popular.

Apparently, I’ve debugged your code.

If you have two devs pair programming, at least one of them is being slowed tremendously. It should be used very sparingly and only in junior/senior mentoring attempts. Putting two senior devs on pair programming is nearly always just slashing your dev productivity.

I’ve seen devs take 3 days to write code in pair programming that either one could’ve completed on their own in 4 hours or so.