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by spaceywilly 411 days ago
> and I struggle to think of what would lead one to the urge to implement a key=value config file parser in 2025

That could be a symptom of LLM coding. I have found at times they will go down a rabbit hole of coding up a complicated solution to something when I know that a library already exists it could’ve used. I’m sure part of the problem is that it isn’t able to search for libraries to solve problems, so if its training data didn’t use a particular library, it will not be able to use it.