Pith Number

pith:EEFUNR35

pith:2026:EEFUNR35FRTLGSLNZ2UQZQ5YA5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Substrate Collapse: AI Code Generation Invalidates Authorship-Based Knowledge Metrics

Brett Wheeler

arxiv:2606.20882 v1 · 2026-06-18 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EEFUNR35FRTLGSLNZ2UQZQ5YA5}

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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	2026-06-23T00:12:01.639601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

210b46c77d2c66b3496dcea90cc3b80768593ed8784d3490f172b7cee2d55032

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.20882 · arxiv_version: 2606.20882v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.20882 · pith_short_12: EEFUNR35FRTL · pith_short_16: EEFUNR35FRTLGSLN · pith_short_8: EEFUNR35

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/EEFUNR35FRTLGSLNZ2UQZQ5YA5 \
  | 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: 210b46c77d2c66b3496dcea90cc3b80768593ed8784d3490f172b7cee2d55032

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad09e8a0dfecae4d2fe2941cbe7c8de01afef298f6e17558b83e943b512305cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-18T19:17:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6924d79a5bdad7f9bcbe1fa31b8613f37dec153b42f706cae227c495388314da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.20882",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}