Lesson 023: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:23 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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282186. - 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 |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-6h | SPAM delta < 0.02 | cal-oncall-1 |
| TB1-14h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-4 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L23.
Practice
Practice Draft three pass/fail checks for fidelity or success probability before widening access. — 23 Bump literals mindset by 14.