This post is a short summary of a longer conversation on theBeyond the Qubit podcast.
I sat down with the CEO of QC Design to talk about whatquantum computing really is once you strip away the metaphors.
A qubit is not a bit with uncertainty.
It is a fragile physical state.
You cannot read it without destroying it.
You cannot copy it.
You cannot inspect what it contains.
You never really ask a qubit a question.
What you actually do is prepare a physical system, let itevolve under carefully designed control pulses, and then force a measurement.
You get a single outcome. Not an answer, but a sample.
The qubit does not reason, choose, or understand thequestion.
It simply reacts to physical forces and collapses.
Seen this way, quantum computation looks less likecomputation and more like continuous damage control layered on top of aphysical process that barely exists long enough to be manipulated.
This perspective matters.
Because it exposes why scaling quantum systems is fundamentally an engineeringproblem, not a software one.
The full conversation goes much deeper into what this meansfor system design, abstractions, and where many roadmaps quietly break down.
More in the full episode of Beyond the Qubit.
https://youtu.be/9ydv1tFjgqo
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