Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

All of it smells of a (lousy) junior software engineer: from configuring root logger at the top, module level (which relies on module import caching not to be reapplied), over not using a stdlib config file parser and building one themselves, to a raciness in load_json where it's checked for file existence with an if and then carrying on as if the file is certainly there...

In a nutshell, if the rest of it is like this, it simply sucks.

But the alternative would be the tool doesn't get built because the author doesn't know enough Python to even produce crappy code, or doesn't have the money to hire an awesome Python coder to do that for them.