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Ask HN: In the age of agentic AI, do you still pair program?

2•sparklingmango•48m ago
What about mob/ensemble programming? I work on a team that used to use mob programming heavily. There would be a driver and a navigator, and then someone taking notes. Other people would be "muses" or observers. Always occurring over Zoom. I always felt like this was a very draining way of programming. Pair programming felt a bit better. Of course, we still get together to discuss architecture or how we want to go about a certain set of work or if we're blocked, but with agents, it just doesn't make sense to get everybody in a call to watch someone else's agent work.

So, in the age of agentic AI, how do these two concepts evolve (or disappear)?

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