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Sometimes I think devs should not have admin rights over their machines
They shouldn't period. Most devs know or care sweet F.A. about maintaining a managed environment and a significant percentage of them are short sighted.
You end up with a standoff where the dev says he needs something installed on his machine in order to do his job and the IT department refusing to allow it, or taking a couple of days to get around to it. Especially as "need" can vary from "yes, absolutely" to "my life would be much easier with this utility". One could argue that for best productivity they should all be allowed if known not to be malware because productive devs are better than unproductive ones.