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The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 6 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.13666.

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measured 6 of 6 standing notices

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Observation 87dd2c13-3aa4-4125-b9f2-c383ad9c8792 · inbound

CodeOCR: On the Effectiveness of Vision Language Models in Code Understanding cites this paper.

CodeOCR: On the Effectiveness of Vision Language Models in Code Understanding The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Reference 71

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-16T08:32:36.587060Z

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Observation c2efedbe-2774-4c60-9fce-56f1c6b719e0 · inbound

Sustainability Analysis of Prompt Strategies for SLM-based Automated Test Generation cites this paper.

Sustainability Analysis of Prompt Strategies for SLM-based Automated Test Generation The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Reference 11

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-13T20:18:13.047570Z

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Observation 42ec5ec4-8c9d-42b6-8296-110f40c768c4 · inbound

Babbling Suppression: Making LLMs Greener One Token at a Time cites this paper.

Babbling Suppression: Making LLMs Greener One Token at a Time The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Reference 31

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-11T00:30:53.222829Z

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Observation 67ce1642-3dfd-4d9e-aef9-7f28c16c75da · inbound

Characterizing Readability Issue Patterns and the Role of Prompt Design in LLM-Generated Code cites this paper.

Characterizing Readability Issue Patterns and the Role of Prompt Design in LLM-Generated Code The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Reference 73

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-14T18:19:23.617015Z

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Observation 7eea0baf-8921-48bb-a355-74621bb730b1 · inbound

Characterizing Readability Issue Patterns and the Role of Prompt Design in LLM-Generated Code cites this paper.

Characterizing Readability Issue Patterns and the Role of Prompt Design in LLM-Generated Code The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Reference 73

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Observation 6591ea8e-79cc-428c-9645-fd4fa71afbaf · inbound

CodeShrink: Adaptive Visual Compression for Efficient Multimodal Code Understanding cites this paper.

CodeShrink: Adaptive Visual Compression for Efficient Multimodal Code Understanding The Hidden Cost of Readability: How Code Formatting Silently Consumes Your LLM Budget

Reference 39

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-03T03:05:15.270261Z

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