Mercury Edit 2
Ultra-fast next-edit prediction for coding
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Mercury Edit 2 is a coding-focused diffusion LLM built specifically for next-edit prediction. It uses your recent edits and codebase context to suggest the next change, with much higher acceptance and much lower latency than typical code-edit models.
PH · launched Apr 4, 2026 · 171 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: large language models · 191 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- API
- Artificial Intelligence
- Development
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Could you build this?
No Mercury Edit 2 is a custom diffusion-based LLM trained from scratch or fine-tuned on code editing with custom ultra-low-latency inference, requiring state-of-the-art ML research and substantial GPU compute.
What it would actually take: Creating this necessitates specialized deep learning research in diffusion models applied to discrete text/code representations, curating a massive multi-file code edit dataset, and training models on GPU clusters. Serving it requires custom kernel optimizations (e.g., vLLM or custom CUDA kernels) to hit sub-100ms response latencies during active code editing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 16 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 17 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 128 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Mercury 3 · ph · 2026-10-22 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- Blink-Edit · hn · 2026-01-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Mercury · hn · 2026-04-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- midcode · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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