Lesson 139: Simulator honesty boundaries
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Simulator honesty boundaries:139 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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726755. - 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 |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-4h | SPAM delta < 0.035 | cal-oncall-0 |
| TB1-25h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-0 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L139.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 139 Bump literals mindset by 12.