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pith:GP4XIAVN

pith:2024:GP4XIAVNBMALXSTTRQISPNSDCG

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Leveraging LLMs for Legacy Code Modernization: Challenges and Opportunities for LLM-Generated Documentation

Amit Madan, Anand Patel, Arun Sridharan, Chris Glasz, Colin Diggs, Doug Wendt, Emily Escamilla, Jacob Zimmer, Jasper Phillips, Justin F. Brunelle, Michael Bartholf, Michael Doyle, Naveed Nekoo, Nitin Naik, Paul Kirk, Paul Ursino, Samruddhi Thaker, Scott Rosen, Siggy Scott, William Macke, Zachary Robin

arxiv:2411.14971 v1 · 2024-11-22 · cs.LG · cs.SE

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Reversa: A Reverse Documentation Engineering Framework for Converting Legacy Software into Operational Specifications for AI Agents

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:39:14.388394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

33f97402ad0b00bbca738c1127b64311adc57d2200cbbbd6f90d505d57394e9f

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arxiv: 2411.14971 · arxiv_version: 2411.14971v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.14971 · pith_short_12: GP4XIAVNBMAL · pith_short_16: GP4XIAVNBMALXSTT · pith_short_8: GP4XIAVN

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GP4XIAVNBMALXSTTRQISPNSDCG \
  | 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: 33f97402ad0b00bbca738c1127b64311adc57d2200cbbbd6f90d505d57394e9f

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-22T14:27:27Z",
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