This is what pair programming fixes, among other things. You have someone who can literally take a step back to get a broader overview. It's quite nice from what I can tell (I do want to do more of it, but at work we don't have the problems that make the most fun with pair programming, and for side projects I lack friends who are willing and able to grasp the math behind it (nothing extreme, just on the level/around pose reconstruction and some simple (linear core) optimizations intertwined with (photogrammetry) domain specific data shuffling).