Yes, I've also met far more irresponsible, unprofessional developers than responsible, professional ones. As the CTO, my first responsibility is to hire the pe

Yes, I've also met far more irresponsible, unprofessional developers than responsible, professional ones. As the CTO, my first responsibility is to hire the people that make the "right" decisions/solutions. Of course they discuss those decisions with their coworkers and me. That's just common sense. Sure, I'll make the odd hiring mistake, but that's no excuse to create and entire culture around the assumption that every developer I hire has the maturity and professionality of a teenage sociopath. My reaction is a knee-jerk reaction to a culture of distrust, bureaucracy and micromanagement. The alternative to letting the inmates running the asylum is not to lobotomise the inmates, it's to not turn the place into in asylum in the first place.