Shopify founders deleted incomplete code after one hour of pair programming
Farhan Thawar · How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng) · Dec 19, 2024 · at 23:20
Shopify VP and Head of Engineering Farhan Thawar describes the extreme pair-programming practices used by Tobi Lütke and Cody Fauser in Shopify's early days.
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“You know, Toby famously built a lot of Shopify pair programming, and what he would do is he would actually set a timer And him and his, the CTO, Cody, would pair program for one hour, and if they did not finish the problem in one hour, they would delete all the code, and they would keep the tests, and they would start over.”
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