In this episode of the Qubit Value Podcast, recorded on February 13, 2026, the hosts explore the revolutionary shift in quantum computing sparked by the release of Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 Opus and OpenAI’s GPT 5.3 Codex. They dive into the "vibe coding" phenomenon—a new era of intent-based orchestration where researchers can simulate complex molecular physics by simply describing their goals to AI "theorists" and "engineers" rather than manually coding logic gates. While celebrating how these tools "unhobble" scientists and democratize the field for non-experts, the discussion offers a grounded look at the "verification gap" and the risks of relying on AI-generated "vibes" in a field where a single hallucinated gate can turn a million-dollar simulation into pure noise.
