Pith Number

pith:STMICVLH

pith:2026:STMICVLHKLXIB3VH7RPMTULYB6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can LLMs Produce Better Object-Oriented Designs than Human-Involved Development?

Elliott Wen, Ewan Tempero, Zushuai Zhang

arxiv:2605.19901 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{STMICVLHKLXIB3VH7RPMTULYB6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-20T01:06:20.120269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94d881556752ee80eea7fc5ec9d1780f8ba36a568d7036044a58a5e252789cd6

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19901 · arxiv_version: 2605.19901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19901 · pith_short_12: STMICVLHKLXI · pith_short_16: STMICVLHKLXIB3VH · pith_short_8: STMICVLH

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/STMICVLHKLXIB3VH7RPMTULYB6 \
  | 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: 94d881556752ee80eea7fc5ec9d1780f8ba36a568d7036044a58a5e252789cd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7430f2cebb76a4c20faf656f90f1d1c0b6e2f979e491ac953dbddfdc9d46c31c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T14:32:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec53bf94246ae77138eddba03dc2976eb60e9a08db59f442704010025ec14440"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}