Green Code or Costly Code? Evaluating the Energy Costs of Iterative LLM-Based Code Optimizations By Sadra Emami, Benjamin Weigell, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Gunel Jahangirova, Hugo Araujo · ArXiv · AI/CL/LG · Oct 23, 2026 ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note score 4 Categories: Research