Penn and Teller develop their tricks together. Two-seater attack aircraft are a thing. Rally drivers have a driver and a navigator. Apprentices are taught in part through pairing.
> Like standups and pointing, it feels like a patronizing exercise we only force on devs.
There's truth in that. On one hand, many of our practices is formalised problem solving under the (non-)constraints of software. Others are cargo culted, clueless, patronising and painful.
I think the difference is that the other activities you mentioned were execution/performance, while software development is a combination of engineering and creativity.
Penn and Teller develop their tricks together. Two-seater attack aircraft are a thing. Rally drivers have a driver and a navigator. Apprentices are taught in part through pairing.
> Like standups and pointing, it feels like a patronizing exercise we only force on devs.
There's truth in that. On one hand, many of our practices is formalised problem solving under the (non-)constraints of software. Others are cargo culted, clueless, patronising and painful.