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On the other hand, I see a developer's tools as an extension of his or her mind. Enforcing that everyone uses the same tools seems like a great way to encourage hive mind thinking.

Especially proprietary tools that can not be automated or extended is something you should be wary of pushing onto for example a bash and vim wielding programmer, unless your business has no need for major productivity gains to grow or to sustain itself.



I don't encourage hive mind, by other means. The proprietary tools I recently used where automatable with either apple script system or in java for jetbrain product, but generaly we would do a lot of command line automation because we are more proficient in that. And I try to push products designed for their users instead of designed for their licence or their developers to my product team. But also i leave the freedom to my team to change the tools, every wednesday, we can change some tools, for the whole team.




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