What you’re saying seems to be compounded by the black box aspects here. Instinctively a prompt may look like one line of code. We can often know or prove what

What you’re saying seems to be compounded by the black box aspects here. Instinctively a prompt may look like one line of code. We can often know or prove what a compiler is doing, but higher dimensional space is just not understood in the same way. What other engineered thing in history has had this much immediately useful emergent capability? Genetic algorithms finding antenna designs and flocking algorithms are fantastic, but I would argue narrower in scope. Of course a paper is still expected to expand knowledge, to have rigor and impact, but I don’t see why a prompt centric contribution would inherently preclude this.