Yeah, I'm just a sysadmin so I don't really get it either, but I've been following them for a while out of a layman's interest. My understanding is that there w

Yeah, I'm just a sysadmin so I don't really get it either, but I've been following them for a while out of a layman's interest. My understanding is that there was already a body of work in the direction of optimization problems formulated as "Ising Hamiltonians", which is some mathematical construct that it's hard to calculate the lowest-energy configuration for; D-Wave took the most practical route to yielding actual working qubits possible, and can solve those Ising problems on there. What we're forced to imagine is a future 5-10 years from now when they have 10k or 20k qubits, or they're all way more connected together, or something like that; there comes a point at which it will truly be very useful for big problems, and so the speculative player who wants to profit off of this would spend their time trying to actually make working models of something useful in reality which uses such an optimization solver as an engine underneath.