{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2024:IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM","short_pith_number":"pith:IAYI4XM4","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"40308e5d9cd1a927d9fe483992d25bcb3855eefa1e8905ec6dab87b39f1ea9c8","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"2410.19792","version":1},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.LG"],"primary_cat":"cs.CY","authors_text":"Arjun Guha, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Francesca Lucchetti, Molly Q Feldman, Zixuan Wu","submitted_at":"2024-10-15T20:36:30Z","abstract_excerpt":"Although LLMs are increasing the productivity of professional programmers, existing work shows that beginners struggle to prompt LLMs to solve text-to-code tasks. Why is this the case? This paper explores two competing hypotheses about the cause of student-LLM miscommunication: (1) students simply lack the technical vocabulary needed to write good prompts, and (2) students do not understand the extent of information that LLMs need to solve code generation tasks. We study (1) with a causal intervention experiment on technical vocabulary and (2) by analyzing graphs that abstract how students edi"},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"2410.19792","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"cs.CY","submitted_at":"2024-10-15T20:36:30Z","cross_cats_sorted":["cs.LG"],"title_canon_sha256":"b0cb245bfb9162324476b2036f6ecd458792a72f98d7189e79a56ed968ac1df9","abstract_canon_sha256":"04f3ef44b54d809ef5c8af0f965ad2a577dc80ebd2b3daf0332e2aa10efddad6"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.311017Z","signature_b64":"XAdwuaUwCE47Mekq+oYkCdwjpT3gWoDVi8G/hBeWinz7o3w1B5Z7JWeH58TNpRmVJuf4GXpZqflfsSGTvS5MAw==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"40308e5d9cd1a927d9fe483992d25bcb3855eefa1e8905ec6dab87b39f1ea9c8","last_reissued_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310595Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310595Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Substance Beats Style: Why Beginning Students Fail to Code with LLMs","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["cs.LG"],"primary_cat":"cs.CY","authors_text":"Arjun Guha, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Francesca Lucchetti, Molly Q Feldman, Zixuan Wu","submitted_at":"2024-10-15T20:36:30Z","abstract_excerpt":"Although LLMs are increasing the productivity of professional programmers, existing work shows that beginners struggle to prompt LLMs to solve text-to-code tasks. Why is this the case? This paper explores two competing hypotheses about the cause of student-LLM miscommunication: (1) students simply lack the technical vocabulary needed to write good prompts, and (2) students do not understand the extent of information that LLMs need to solve code generation tasks. We study (1) with a causal intervention experiment on technical vocabulary and (2) by analyzing graphs that abstract how students edi"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2410.19792","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2410.19792/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2410.19792","created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2410.19792v1","created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2410.19792","created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"IAYI4XM42GUS","created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6","created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"IAYI4XM4","created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":0,"internal_anchor_count":0,"sample":[]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM","json":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/IAYI4XM4"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/IAYI4XM4","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=2410.19792&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/IAYI4XM42GUSPWP6JA4ZFUS3ZM/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00","updated_at":"2026-07-05T09:26:33.310661+00:00"}