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pith:U7YDS3OW

pith:2025:U7YDS3OW42BQFYJJBDDWRWA5MI

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Prompting Science Report 1: Prompt Engineering is Complicated and Contingent

Dan Shapiro, Ethan Mollick, Lennart Meincke, Lilach Mollick

arxiv:2503.04818 v1 · 2025-03-04 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U7YDS3OW42BQFYJJBDDWRWA5MI}

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The PICCO Framework for Large Language Model Prompting: A Taxonomy and Reference Architecture for Prompt Structure

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:25:49.710857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7f0396dd6e68302e12908c768d81d62320b1f803d51501e30f2d09a1a8cc80b

Aliases

arxiv: 2503.04818 · arxiv_version: 2503.04818v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.04818 · pith_short_12: U7YDS3OW42BQ · pith_short_16: U7YDS3OW42BQFYJJ · pith_short_8: U7YDS3OW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U7YDS3OW42BQFYJJBDDWRWA5MI \
  | 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: a7f0396dd6e68302e12908c768d81d62320b1f803d51501e30f2d09a1a8cc80b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b31bf34e3c6e6636906a42081eada4fdb0102b5eca561364828d965805967686",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-04T21:09:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6616d9fab34582b3d52c3150ae1e3a707393103aed9f3f8ad6d4bc987b5bf131"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2503.04818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}