Toward Readable LLM-Generated Code via Multitask Representation Engineering

arXiv·medium signal

Correctness gets most of the attention, but readability — ease of human comprehension — is the other half of code quality and is often poor in generated code. This work uses multitask representation engineering to jointly optimize for correctness and readability rather than treating readability as an afterthought. Relevant for anyone whose AI-written code has to survive human review and maintenance. Published 2026-06-04 (cs.SE).