Pith Number

pith:6MXDM4YT

pith:2026:6MXDM4YTHW5X6SSGBGBNEOQ2NH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

GenAI Is No Silver Bullet for Qualitative Research in Software Engineering

Christoph Treude, Neil A. Ernst

arxiv:2603.08951 v2 · 2026-03-09 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6MXDM4YTHW5X6SSGBGBNEOQ2NH}

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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	2026-07-30T01:16:52.921044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	unsigned_v0
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f32e3673133dbb7f4a460982d23a1a69c5f7c246fe8e172df68a4b817c7d58f7

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.08951 · arxiv_version: 2603.08951v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.08951 · pith_short_12: 6MXDM4YTHW5X · pith_short_16: 6MXDM4YTHW5X6SSG · pith_short_8: 6MXDM4YT

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/6MXDM4YTHW5X6SSGBGBNEOQ2NH \
  | 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: f32e3673133dbb7f4a460982d23a1a69c5f7c246fe8e172df68a4b817c7d58f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "481edb112151b5b3a66ec14881bb660114c2ce0db9fa683e13b893da434d922f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-09T21:35:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "822a0ecc9cc566a27effe05a05c2702e983f82ea97952ccf50798aa8b6042e68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.08951",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}