The most bizarre aspect of this was when Twitter engineers were told to print out their code on paper. There is literally no good reason to do that. At best it is staggering incompetence. At worst it is an intentionally pointless and expensive exercise that serves purely as a loyalty test.
Nah paper is still more efficient than computers in quick meetings. You can imagine many seconds being wasted if they were on a laptop and the engineer needs to find his files. Paper the UX is perfect and instant.
I very recently reacted the same copy/pasted code that was in in 7 files, each one had 6 touch points of 5 lines each, and the touch points were 50-300 lines as part. Would be a lot of paper for what had been a 30 minute exercise. I cantquite how to picture going over that diff on paper. The time wasted doing so seems sad, as do the natural resource waste (which tends to make me think the guy got into electric cars because it was cool and had an open market opportunity rather than ecological reasons - but that is a very random aside)