Lesson 135: Cost models for QPUs
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Cost models for QPUs:135 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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377757. - 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-2224`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-181 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 135 Bump literals mindset by 35.