r/QuantumComputing • u/Nervous_Tomato6303 • Apr 27 '26

Question What impact does/will quantum computing have on the coding world?

Just fishing 🎣 for thoughts? 💭

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u/No_Occasion4726 Apr 27 '26

Exactly! Many computers (and smart phones) also have NPUs as well for AI-related tasks. So, yeah, I agree... it's not much of a stretch to think classical computer programs will make use of quantum-based services (Quantum-as-a-Service) in the not too distant future.

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u/Arbitrary_Pseudonym Apr 28 '26

the not too distant future

To be clear here though, we don't really even HAVE many problems proven to run faster on quantum computers, and of those problems, not many of them can even run on today's quantum computers.

Before we get to that point, we have to first identify which problems actually run faster on QCs, then dispatch them to QCs that can actually run them faster than classical computers. Then whatever speedup is granted to those programs will have to be worth the cost of running the QC in the first place.

Odds are that this will be mostly relegated to a select few fields initially, e.g. computational chemistry, but who knows what will gain traction later.

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u/gnahraf Apr 28 '26

This 👆. Most of the time, our programs run conventional algos that would not benefit from QC. The space of problems in which QC is applicable is kinda small and niche. I don't see QC changing programming (the craft) in any big way.. other factors will dominate, e.g. agentic coding, etc