I suppose people thought the same of classical computers when the ordinary way to carry out computations was to deliver them to arrays of people sitting at desk

I suppose people thought the same of classical computers when the ordinary way to carry out computations was to deliver them to arrays of people sitting at desks. Now, history is not forced to repeat itself, but it has happened frequently enough so that it might be premature to exclude that QC will at some point be generally available and used. I agree that having a lot of programmers is not an immediate need, though.