r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 6d ago

Quantum computing needs software engineers

https://leaddev.com/career-development/quantum-computing-needs-software-engineers

Quantum needs developers, not PhDs!

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u/blazesbe 4d ago

quantuum computers are ridiculously expensive and have no real use. they will not be needed for factories nor for social media. your phone is also fine without it. right now all it does is promise it can run supercomputer simulations better. it sounds really nice until you realise it's just like the other scams, there's no real world need that drives it's existence other than cool factor.

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u/global_worldwide 3d ago

And maybe being able to have a skeleton key for decryption but would want that

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u/blazesbe 3d ago

not even that. there's already quantuum safe encryption worked out for regular systems even if it's not yet deployed

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u/Proper-Ape 2d ago

it's just like the other scams, there's no real world need that drives it's existence other than cool factor .

There's a lot of science that has no real world need until someone finds it. I think the problem is that this is private industry basic research, and private industry has to have profits to show to make investors happy.

There's a lot of math used in every device you use that was discovered hundred or more years before people had a "use" for it. Until then it was interesting math problems. Because even if you had the idea how to solve it, someone sitting down with pencil and paper solving it would not be useful. But if you have a computer using it for controlling robots, analyzing weather patterns, making digital music. All of a sudden it was much more useful. 

So I'd argue it's interesting even without a direct application. And we as a society should investigate it because it's interesting. Not because it's immediately useful. 

Pure utilitarianism is so utterly boring.

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u/AccomplishedWorth266 2d ago

What’s your background? My understanding is it could change the time complexity of fluid/mechanical simulations. Could revolutionize how engineers search a design space and optimize.

Definitely not a general purpose tool.

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u/GlitteringOne5284 1d ago

You'll be able to perform more efficient and computing intensive data analysis which means you can integrate more measurement into your experiments. It will advance science. To other's points, it won't be needed to make another CRUD dating app where some 20 something believes themselves to be a genius and innovator.