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pith:ELUQOQG7

pith:2026:ELUQOQG7VLUESFHNKL2EV55YDU

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"An Endless Stream of AI Slop": How Developers Discuss the Burden of AI-Assisted Software Development

Christoph Treude, Marc Cheong, Sebastian Baltes

arxiv:2603.27249 v2 · 2026-03-28 · cs.SE

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First computed	2026-06-11T01:09:33.893439Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

22e90740dfaae84914ed52f44af7b81d324c712d4299757a8ac840ea078ba436

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.27249 · arxiv_version: 2603.27249v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.27249 · pith_short_12: ELUQOQG7VLUE · pith_short_16: ELUQOQG7VLUESFHN · pith_short_8: ELUQOQG7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ELUQOQG7VLUESFHNKL2EV55YDU \
  | 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: 22e90740dfaae84914ed52f44af7b81d324c712d4299757a8ac840ea078ba436

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-28T11:50:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23c83b9888c86dbdb96b1f912715a784b34394598884ee1bbc8d7923d92955cf"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}