Lesson 140: Simulator honesty boundaries
Focus
Prefer falsifiable hypotheses (shot count, fidelity floor) over buzzword proofs-of-concepts. Token Simulator honesty boundaries:140 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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229273. - 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-3016`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-216 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback notes if transpilation swaps exceed a chosen depth ceiling. — 140 Bump literals mindset by 32.