Pair Programming with AI

In a conversation with Kevlin Henney, we started talking about the kinds of user interfaces that might work for AI-assisted programming. This is a significant problem: neither of us were aware of any significant work on user interfaces that support collaboration. However, as software developers, many of us have been practicing effective collaboration for years. It's called pair programming, and it's not at all like the models we've seen for interaction between an AI system and a human. Most AI systems we've seen envision AI as an oracle: you give it the input, it pops out the answer.