Pith Number

pith:3EFBN6XA

pith:2026:3EFBN6XASFRQ6H6ZTYT7QIBVA5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Agent Code Less Maintainable Than Human Code?

Arun Purohit, Betty Li Hou, He He, Jane Pan, Kai Xu, Shaswat Patel, Valerie Chen

arxiv:2606.21804 v1 · 2026-06-19 · cs.SE · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3EFBN6XASFRQ6H6ZTYT7QIBVA5}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-06-23T01:13:23.239645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d90a16fae091630f1fd99e27f82035077a1e88f93aae0779044a8c764871e006

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21804 · arxiv_version: 2606.21804v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21804 · pith_short_12: 3EFBN6XASFRQ · pith_short_16: 3EFBN6XASFRQ6H6Z · pith_short_8: 3EFBN6XA

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/3EFBN6XASFRQ6H6ZTYT7QIBVA5 \
  | 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: d90a16fae091630f1fd99e27f82035077a1e88f93aae0779044a8c764871e006

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7e98609c411c8d813baef0fa17befb3951780a7211d62c307a7e2128600001e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T23:56:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24cb58ba9e703df71f6df56f5e1f4184ca79615731776a22531d17a200181568"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21804",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}