[vtomole]

No, and Shor's is not a good benchmark for these early quantum computers: https://algassert.com/post/2500

[sestep]

That's a 404; here's a working link: https://algassert.com/post/2500

[vtomole]

Oops, updated. Thanks!

[rowanG077]

I'm not sure you can really call it "early days" anymore. The first quantum computer was in 1998. That's 27 years ago.

[vtomole]

"early days" means that the 1998 computer didn't have qubits that were below the error correction threshold. Now we have hundreds of qubits below threshold. We'll need millions of qubits like these for quantum computing to be useful. If that take decades, this is the "early days" relatively.

It's not only early days in hardware, it's early days in practical applications as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09124

[avadodin]

Maybe the real quantum computing was the friends we made along the way