White Paper Series 4 papers

Prompt Engineering IS Back!

A four-part white paper series distilled from the Future Fiction Academy session of the same name — opening the black box of how language models read your prompt, why a single word reorganizes a scene, what names smuggle into your fiction, and why the em dash became the great tell of AI prose.

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These four papers all come from a single live Future Fiction Academy session, Prompt Engineering IS Back! Watch the full session above, then read the papers in order — each one takes a single thread from the talk and follows it all the way down.

The series opens by making the invisible visible: how your words become tokens, token IDs, and embeddings in a model’s meaning-space, and why one changed word reorganizes an entire scene. From there it turns to the craft and ethics of names, the mechanics of negative prompting, and finally the em dash — the small punctuation mark that, because it is tokenized like any word, became the unmistakable signature of AI-written prose.

You can read any paper on its own, or download the complete series as a single PDF below.