---
title: "Pairing Guidelines"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/pairing-guidelines-2pc-wpup4
source_url: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2021/01/17/Pairing.html
type: article
source: "The Clean Code Blog"
published: 2021-01-17T14:15:50.628Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Pairing Guidelines

**[The Clean Code Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/cleancoder)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Everybody pairs from time to time. It is a rare programmer who has not sat down with another programmer to look something over or help find a bug. Deep problems, that require much heavy thinking, do not often lend themselves to pairing. Pairing on this type of code keeps that code well tested, well structured, and as simple as possible.

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