Pith Number

pith:H7DG5JHJ

pith:2025:H7DG5JHJCPMOMCH2NTCRJFIC6F

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Debugging Without Error Messages: How LLM Prompting Strategy Affects Programming Error Explanation Effectiveness

Audrey Salmon, Brett A. Becker, Eddie Antonio Santos, Katie Hammer

arxiv:2501.05706 v1 · 2025-01-10 · cs.SE · cs.HC

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:59:27.591530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3fc66ea4e913d8e608fa6cc5149502f140dd09320d19dc08e938ee7ad5908998

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.05706 · arxiv_version: 2501.05706v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.05706 · pith_short_12: H7DG5JHJCPMO · pith_short_16: H7DG5JHJCPMOMCH2 · pith_short_8: H7DG5JHJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H7DG5JHJCPMOMCH2NTCRJFIC6F \
  | 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: 3fc66ea4e913d8e608fa6cc5149502f140dd09320d19dc08e938ee7ad5908998

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5433084348f66eb72a460af8817679b4e34d045b10b9ebd646102f643b6e3cfb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-10T04:32:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57d3c4121d2eac8557bb46f379a4231495cd7812e1a6e30d11a52d6e23c90b48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.05706",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}