What I learned from pairing by default
For the vast majority of my career, I rarely pair-programmed. I'd even tried it a couple of times, but it was awkward and clunky and slow. I wasn't sold. It became something I only did if I or somebody else was really (really) stuck on something, but never in the regular course of things.
https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2022-12-07-what-i-learned-from-pairing/