luminosity comments on Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment - Less Wrong

45 Post author: cousin_it 27 September 2010 11:34PM

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Comment author: luminosity 28 September 2010 12:34:29AM 9 points [-]

Anecdotal, but my experience of pair programming is that it's incredibly useful for picking up bugs as they are laid down rather than having to dig them up later. Not to say that being monitored working doesn't help, but finding and removing bugs is by far the hardest and most expensive part of programming.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 28 September 2010 02:44:26AM 0 points [-]

Seems reasonable and is supported by some study linked in Wikipedia. Code review is supposed to do this more efficiently, albeit with higher latency.