Introduces the hardware-first worldview for QC+AI, emphasizing noise, shot budgets, trainability, and the collapse of simulator-first intuition on real NISQ systems.

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Learning goals

Explain why hardware-constrained learning replaces simulator-first reasoning in near-term QC+AI.
Identify the main physical limits that reshape learning design on NISQ hardware.
Recognize the major failure modes that invalidate naive quantum-learning claims.

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Why Hardware-Constrained Learning
Hardware Constraints That Shape Learning
Practical Design Workflow
Failure Modes & Diagnostics

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Why Hardware-Constrained Learning Replaces Simulator-First Thinking

Uses the introduction document to frame QC+AI as a hardware-bounded systems discipline in which noise, depth, shot cost, and deployment realism set the design space.

The promise of QC+AI depends on hardware-aware design, not on importing idealized fault-tolerant assumptions into NISQ practice.
Noise-induced barren plateaus, finite sampling, and cloud-execution costs are first-order design parameters rather than implementation details.
Credible near-term models live in a narrow Goldilocks zone between expressivity and trainability.

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