Lesson 049: Benchmark suite scepticism cards
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Benchmark suite scepticism cards:49 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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107329. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
Calibration freshness matrix
| Window | Drift sentinel | Owner |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-4h | SPAM delta < 0.035 | cal-oncall-2 |
| TB1-16h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-2 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L49.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 49 Bump literals mindset by 10.