The field can’t agree whether we’re about to enter quantum’s golden age or a much longer transition period.
For what it's worth, there are interesting lines of research looking at what it means to use a quantum computer which is *partially* error corrected. I hope additional work develops along these lines in the coming years.
See, for example:
* "A framework of partial error correction for intermediate-scale quantum computers" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15531
* "The battle of clean and dirty qubits in the era of partial error correction" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13454
* "Error mitigation for universal gates on encoded qubits" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04915
For what it's worth, there are interesting lines of research looking at what it means to use a quantum computer which is *partially* error corrected. I hope additional work develops along these lines in the coming years.
See, for example:
* "A framework of partial error correction for intermediate-scale quantum computers" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15531
* "The battle of clean and dirty qubits in the era of partial error correction" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13454
* "Error mitigation for universal gates on encoded qubits" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04915