The Substrate Collapse: AI Code Generation Invalidates Authorship-Based Knowledge Metrics

Software engineering has long inferred where a system’s knowledge resides from who authored its code. The truck factor, the Degree-of-Authorship metric, and the degree-of-knowledge model all rest on one inference – that authoring a region of code is evidence of understanding it – and for most of s…

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