Coders should also be able to make decisions.

If I was a supervisor I wouldn't like my intern to ask me any decisions that he is about to make.

But then you have to accept most of them...

This goes both ways.

As a team lead, I want my guys to make more decisions (and fucking reasonable ones?)

But right about the time they get on a roll making these decisions, someone pops off something totally asinine that costs the team a week or more.