Pith Number

pith:2CCW7LHN

pith:2025:2CCW7LHN2T4WK7M5CI2KQHR7OF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Vibe Coding: Is Human Nature the Ghost in the Machine?

Cory Knobel, Nicole Radziwill

arxiv:2508.20918 v1 · 2025-08-28 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CCW7LHN2T4WK7M5CI2KQHR7OF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T12:01:13.424002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0856facedd4f9657d9d1234a81e3f714f30afd3d4d8b329db2d43b83d63da0e

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20918 · arxiv_version: 2508.20918v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20918 · pith_short_12: 2CCW7LHN2T4W · pith_short_16: 2CCW7LHN2T4WK7M5 · pith_short_8: 2CCW7LHN

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2CCW7LHN2T4WK7M5CI2KQHR7OF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d0856facedd4f9657d9d1234a81e3f714f30afd3d4d8b329db2d43b83d63da0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc1e430c910a7250bf073d7a173b878f5be86e190689565353f253332cb84e89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-28T15:48:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9563f83d5f56684df27178e508edb4c384177dc29667da185678c866e2094ba6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20918",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}