There is something endearingly batshit about IBM's latest quantum computer hardware resembling a chunk of a steampunk analytical engine—chromed tubes! Discs that resemble gears! Brass highlights!—and then they spoil it by talking about using generative AI to make programming the thing easier.
"Out Of Cheese Error, Redo From Start."
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