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Why would you want five developers to sit in front of one computer and code when you can have those five developers sit in front of five computers and to five times the work?!

Isn’t that just – inefficient?!

Mob programming sounds just like that – five people doing the work of one developer, but it’s actually completely the opposite.

Mob programming is a collaborative approach where a team of software engineers (mob) works on the same thing on one computer and does programming together. It has its roots in pair programming. The focus is on the quality of code and learning, and some of the benefits of mob programming are reducing context switching and waiting times.

Learn more in this video:

https://youtu.be/WG2ryXgdDZQ?si=5Ah4kcWuLKLhOXpJ

For a first-hand account from a team of engineers practicing mob programming for the first time, read this: _ Why would anyone do something as absurd as mob prog _ramming?

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