Worse - there is no actual intention, so attempting to grok it from the code is even more wasted energy.

You have to nitpick everything, because there is no actual meaningful aim that is consistent.

I ran across an outsourcer that did the same thing about 20 years ago (near as I could tell he was randomly cutting and pasting random parts of stack overflow answers until it compiled!). We got him away from the code base/fired ASAP because he was an active threat to everyone.