Pith Number

pith:N4PT7R5X

pith:2026:N4PT7R5XZKPHIKYC3Q47JZDYRQ

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The Impact of AI Coding Assistants on Software Engineering: A Longitudinal Study

Annie Vella, Kelly Blincoe

arxiv:2605.23135 v1 · 2026-05-22 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N4PT7R5XZKPHIKYC3Q47JZDYRQ}

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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	2026-05-25T02:01:39.837139Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f1f3fc7b7ca9e742b02dc39f4e4788c31bb53bb24d6bd7856c710fdf7795554

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.23135 · arxiv_version: 2605.23135v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.23135 · pith_short_12: N4PT7R5XZKPH · pith_short_16: N4PT7R5XZKPHIKYC · pith_short_8: N4PT7R5X

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N4PT7R5XZKPHIKYC3Q47JZDYRQ \
  | 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: 6f1f3fc7b7ca9e742b02dc39f4e4788c31bb53bb24d6bd7856c710fdf7795554

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "effa1189a037ae67d83a8edecac4ebe6f52850600aa6b090a41e37f7918fceba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-22T01:18:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8d7bcccb18ed866d552e563ac6035df96d0fdfd82b0d00b43c59ad7d38dccbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.23135",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}