Derrick Reimer

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327 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 15 Sep

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Startups For the Rest of Us · Episode 850 | How Not to Screw Up When Hiring Your first Developer and More Listener Questions (with Derrick Reimer) · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

But it's funny too, like even even these days, just writing a commit message by hand feels archaic because it's like these days you're building with an agent generally.

The agent has so much context and the agent can summarize so much better what we did and why we did it.

So it's it's crazy how much better the commit history has gotten about capturing context.

Yeah, I've always done that.

You know, especially early on.

That's your time to really infuse the the ethos of like what we do and how we do it.

And getting some of those some of those particular patterns that we like to follow when we do things infused into that person is really crucial early on, I think.

And some of that can come from

an AI agent reading the code base and dis and trying to discern some of that, but also there's the element of like

Building the rapport, building the

Here's how we work together on things, here's how we disagree on things and how we r resolve those disagreements.

And so there's a lot of that kind of human level collaboration value in spending time together pairing.

So yeah, I've always spent a good couple of weeks kind of each day for an hour or two or whatever, um, pair programming.

Yeah, I think something like that.

I ended up going maybe three hours on my last one.

It went really fast in in my recollection.

Like I thought we were gonna make so much more progress and it we didn't make a ton of progress on what we were doing, but it was still a high value exercise, you know.

Yeah, I will say using a recruiter was super helpful on this last round of hiring.

Just because, you know, you you ideally you're you're promoting this widely that you're hiring, you know, to to get it in front of

Hopefully a good amount of people so the right fit can emerge.

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