[torginus]

I've had the same experience - I was running a cottage-business with my best friend as a teen, writing a DOS GUI app for a single customer - we did this exact sort of pair programming, and I can say with confidence in retrospect, that we didn't know how good we had it.

We were doing so many things so much better than what Ive seen as industry best practice since then, despite both of us being both very inexperienced and young.