Lesson 029: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:29 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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793732. - 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
QEC / FT literacy stub
- Code family **concatenated BB**
- Distance `d ≈ 5` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X34`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 29.
Practice
Practice Draft three pass/fail checks for fidelity or success probability before widening access. — 29 Bump literals mindset by 29.