Lesson 136: Simulator honesty boundaries
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Simulator honesty boundaries:136 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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781796. - 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
Shot budget tableau
1. Target CI width `0.085` @ confidence `96`
2. Pilot shots `256` expanding to `7327` if variance plateaus
3. Telemetry fields `job_id,device_tz,mitigation_bundle`
4. Stop rule `halt if RB infidelity > 0.001921`
Practice
Practice Attach rollback notes if transpilation swaps exceed a chosen depth ceiling. — 136 Bump literals mindset by 27.