The best thing about AI as a pair programmer is that it never gets tired of me.
A real pair programmer gets frustrated when you push back on the same decision for the fifth time.
They sigh.
They suggest you just go with it.
You feel the social cost of one more iteration.
I can be pretty stubborn.
With AI that cost disappears. You can iterate ten times on the same decision and it engages on attempt ten the same way it did on attempt one.
No sighing. No impatience. No “just pick one and move on.”
For someone who argues their corner hard and never commits to a direction until it holds up, that matters more than it sounds.