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We're practically a 100% XP shop compiled of ex-Pivots and Thoughtworks. Pairing, TDD and client-on-site as our baseline. We've also been using AI as part of our IDEs full-time for 2+ years.
Yet, the most unexpected thing happened this year on my team of 4 senior/staff-level developers:
Instead of "splintering/pairing off with AI" individually even further, we wound up quadrupling (mobbing) full-time on our biggest project to date. That meant four developers, synchronously, plus Claude Code typing for us, working on one task at a time.
That was one of the most fun, laser-focused and weirdly effective way of combining our XP practice with people and AI.