What's interesting about this moment in time is that the main objection to pair programming has always been cost, but this year I acquired a permanent pair programming partner who's practically free and will be with me forever. This partner is a bit dim-witted and random but has somehow memorized the entire Internet, so I haven't fired it yet...!
I'm referring, of course, to a LLM. While I don't buy into the hype that we're just moments away from general AI, I've found that the most effective way for me to work with ChatGPT or Github Copilot has been to anthropomorphize it a little and imagine that I'm actually pair programming with it. Conversation is just such a natural interface, and it adds a bit of levity to my work.