A little over the top, no? I agree that having developers commit to production code day 1 isn't right for all companies, but having systems sufficiently automated that you can set up a dev workstation and actually commit code in, say, 90 minutes should definitely be a goal for all companies.
Wow.
I can't believe how angry something this utterly nonsensical makes me, but at least I know it's being done by other companies, not by mine.