Pith Number

pith:PJHCDAN2

pith:2025:PJHCDAN2MP2WGIU2F5CXCHA7PF

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Towards Decoding Developer Cognition in the Age of AI Assistants

Brittany Johnson, Chris Brown, Ebtesam Al Haque, Thomas D. LaToza

arxiv:2501.02684 v1 · 2025-01-05 · cs.HC · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{PJHCDAN2MP2WGIU2F5CXCHA7PF}

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Using Biometrics to Understand AI-Assisted Coding Performance and its Perception

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T09:57:10.693220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a4e2181ba63f563229a2f45711c1f7941b266fd4e9c22efed6b92fa79f98d0b

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.02684 · arxiv_version: 2501.02684v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.02684 · pith_short_12: PJHCDAN2MP2W · pith_short_16: PJHCDAN2MP2WGIU2 · pith_short_8: PJHCDAN2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PJHCDAN2MP2WGIU2F5CXCHA7PF \
  | 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: 7a4e2181ba63f563229a2f45711c1f7941b266fd4e9c22efed6b92fa79f98d0b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05c210f2610b2b944c553e605859051e77782aa8f4e5b19495d1cf0b5a5a0912",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-05T23:25:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f532706b4480eb00f77d0fda9661baf41649aa7a418f607ebbc89dac81df9b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.02684",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}