The thing I like about our setup is that it's completely independent of individual developers' setups. Some of us use iterm, some of us are okay with terminal.a

The thing I like about our setup is that it's completely independent of individual developers' setups. Some of us use iterm, some of us are okay with terminal.app (iterm 2 ftw!). All of the backend capable folks (three of us) do have access to production, but we use it very responsibly (helped by the white on a red background production in the console prompt)