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cs.SE2026
Talking to Itself While Coding: What Makes Comments Help Code Generation?
Dangfeng Pan, Zhensu Sun, Cenyuan Zhang +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) often generate natural-language comments while writing code, and these comments become part of the context used to generate the code that follows. Howe…
cs.SE2025
The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget
Dangfeng Pan, Zhensu Sun, Cenyuan Zhang +2
Source code is usually formatted with elements like indentation and newlines to improve readability for human developers. However, these visual aids do not seem to be beneficial fo…