AI Engineers Are Going to Eat Quantum Software Alive

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You know a field is undergoing a phase shift when the people redefining its timelines are outsiders. We knew it was coming, but with AI, it’s moving faster than expected.

Here’s Charles Guillemet. He’s the CTO of Ledger, a hardware crypto wallet company. He is not a quantum physicist, and he is not part of the academic quantum lore. Yet he’s tracking the Q-Day metric closely: how many qubits it takes to run Shor’s algorithm against elliptic curve cryptography.

In an April analysis, he called the post-quantum migration a Y2K-scale event and said the industry is still underestimating it, based on Google’s…