Lesson 025: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Document classical post-processing: it often dominates wall-clock and interpretability. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:25 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Shot budgeting for early demos · drill v5 · spin
325824. - 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
Transpilation checklist
- [ ] basis translation logged for `iswap+cz blend`
- [ ] SWAP count vs manual estimate delta noted
- [ ] layout seed `S-213`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-170 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice List five failure signatures unique to your organiser’s QPUs or simulators. — 25 Bump literals mindset by 15.