The conditional was: If my boss forces me to review it
> As maintainer of some open source projects, there are no circumstances in which...
...you would force yourself to do anything that you don't want to do. Your approach is absolutely correct for the organisational circumstances in which this might happen to you.
There are other organisational circumstances where being the squeaky wheel, even when it's the right thing to do for the business, will be the wrong thing for you personally. It's valuable to identify when you're standing in front of a steamroller, and get out of the way.
Boss forced me? Good. I’ll take a look at the first 100-200 lines, find 3-5 critical or deadly errors, document it clearly and write to the boss how this vibe coding shit is wasting so much of my time
Have a backbone. I would seriously quit on the spot if requested to break my professional integrity with respect to open source development. I have been in this situation before too, so I’m not just saying it.
The conditional was: If my boss forces me to review it
> As maintainer of some open source projects, there are no circumstances in which...
...you would force yourself to do anything that you don't want to do. Your approach is absolutely correct for the organisational circumstances in which this might happen to you.
There are other organisational circumstances where being the squeaky wheel, even when it's the right thing to do for the business, will be the wrong thing for you personally. It's valuable to identify when you're standing in front of a steamroller, and get out of the way.