I have asked this multiple times but is anyone really using edge compute and getting value out of it? I am certain there are cases but I have not seen any of them written up before.

Depends on what you mean by edge compute, but you probably are.

5G towers are a ton of compute on the edge to secure and protect the traffic passing through them.

Or if by edge you mean having stuff close to your consumers, every non trivial operation does that.

We have an embeddable audio player served globally with very low latency. This wouldn't be possible without edge compute/data.