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Thinking about quantum computing and what a debugger may look like <https://twitter.com/roberthaisfield/status/1412473149279510528?s=21|https://twitter.com/roberthaisfield/status/1412473149279510528?s=21>

Also: what would bugs look like? For now, quantum computers are more like electronic circuits than like computers: there is no quantum software, algorithms are hard-wired (though it doesn't have to be wire of course). So maybe the debugging tools from electrical engineering are a better inspiration than gdb and friends.

What do you mean everything is hard-wired?

You can actually program quantum stuff today <https://github.com/rigetti/pyquil>

Someone wrote battleship for a quantum computer <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM3SuHNZVVU>

<@U01R76LELBT> You can program quantum stuff in simulators. In real quantum computers, the standard gates are realized in hardware and they are linked by modifiable connections, which are more like wires than like software. Today's quantum computers are so small that classical computers plus attached hardware can easily create the illusion of programmability, but this is much like having robots change wires in a circuit board.