Forgive me for being naive, or bad a googling (which I did) but what have we done using quantum computers thus far?
I know they are touted to revolutionize practically everything in the future. But, since we have little ones right now, and paying customers have access to them right now, what has that yielded so far?
Is it just esoteric simulation stuff that is actual progress but too technical and boring to mention, or has someone used a quantum computer and then came back and said "wow, check this out, I finally did X after decades of slogging through with traditional computers, and X has now made Y obsolete overnight!". Or maybe what I'm asking is: has anything been done that has any direct impact on our everyday lives so far?
Traditionally most progress is never this disruptive but, isn't this what quantum computers keep touting? You can do X-trillion times more permutations per second than you could before, so surely breakthroughs will happen every day.