Pith Number

pith:2CIEN7AC

pith:2025:2CIEN7ACGKWKY36LIK4COE3N2G

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Human-Written vs. AI-Generated Code: A Large-Scale Study of Defects, Vulnerabilities, and Complexity

Cristina Improta, Domenico Cotroneo, Pietro Liguori

arxiv:2508.21634 v1 · 2025-08-29 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{2CIEN7ACGKWKY36LIK4COE3N2G}

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:01:46.995559Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d09046fc0232acac6fcb42b827136dd197efa86f14577f949a5c7dab8ac7b3bf

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.21634 · arxiv_version: 2508.21634v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.21634 · pith_short_12: 2CIEN7ACGKWK · pith_short_16: 2CIEN7ACGKWKY36L · pith_short_8: 2CIEN7AC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2CIEN7ACGKWKY36LIK4COE3N2G \
  | 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: d09046fc0232acac6fcb42b827136dd197efa86f14577f949a5c7dab8ac7b3bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0cf2ddda8f795152b9ba9fb7e131193a50ece09875743c6bc67d0f78ecfa7bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-29T13:51:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec8d93b2c4c97fe21994b1836d8a4a1f89f1a356cfe7d1b06d406537598e9ab7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.21634",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}