Use convenience functions instead of instantiating ConfigLoader directly

Recommendation

Call load_unified_config() and save_unified_config() rather than creating ConfigLoader instances yourself. These functions handle the global loader singleton and path discovery automatically.

# Do this
config = load_unified_config()

# Not this
loader = ConfigLoader()
config = loader.load()

Why

The convenience functions eliminate boilerplate and ensure consistent behavior across your application, since they all share the same ConfigLoader instance with its cached configuration path.

Tradeoff

You lose fine-grained control over the config file location, but you can still override this by passing an explicit path to the convenience functions when needed.