Lesson 054: Calibration window awareness
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Calibration window awareness:54 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Calibration window awareness · drill v4 · spin
735732. - 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 `rz-sx vs native`
- [ ] SWAP count vs manual estimate delta noted
- [ ] layout seed `S-690`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-166 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 54 Bump literals mindset by 26.