>Why do they even need to have access to production secure credentials during development? Why not let them fall into the "pit of success" so local development

>Why do they even need to have access to production secure credentials during development? Why not let them fall into the "pit of success" so local development never talks to a production server anywhere? Because most local governments are 10 to 20 years behind on anything remotely approaching best practices. It wasn't my choice to run things that way.