[msbarnett]

Yikes. As a professional, I'd never submit to someone else controlling the tools I use to ply my trade, and in my entire career I've never had to. Even when I've worked for large orgs (40k+ employees), Developers have always been root on their own machines, which were never managed centrally.

Do you seriously beg some tech to allow you to install the tools you need, or allow you to load kexts to instrument system calls for debugging, etc? That sounds demeaning.

[organsnyder]

No, I get root access. But I still need centrally-provisioned tools in order to access the VPN, email, etc.—basically, the non-development parts of my job.