The email I received says "Due to recent changes in how we determine account eligibility, we are no longer able to support accounts for businesses with physical or residential addresses in these countries. As a result, we will be closing the Mercury account1 for xxx xxx, LLC on May 1, 2026."
So is this the end for Non-US founders? This was the only bank that offered accounts/fin service without being physically present.
I'm building a password tray app. It's tiny cross-platform app (spotlight like search) for people who juggle multiple password managers and browser profiles.
It gives you a global quick search to find and copy credentials from different sources, regardless of browser or profile.
I find the idea that IntelliJ being a job killer hard to believe, just like when some of my colleagues used to think Dreamweaver would wipe out frontend development - or 'HTML slicing', as we called it back then.
I posted this link after reading all the way. Jason actually makes a good point - its just that this title is loud. Blog post itself isn't claiming the death of software engineering at all. If anything, it just shows that every five or ten years someone claims software engineering is dead.
Its not dead at all and it wont die either.
Why? chagpt, or figma or v0 can spin up a few pages of brochure site, even some blog posting level web apps, basic cruds you know. But I don't think it will replace full software engineering.
I work with a large codebase, thats almost 30 years old, multiple framework ( backbone, react, angular) and then java, python for backends. All from different phases and everything is stitched together to make it work, and have a well profit making business going on. There is no model or chatxyz that can dig throug all these connected apps and services and replace our engineering team. It helps us here and there- yeah a lot.
Its just the title, I have read the post texts before posting, he actually says its here to say dispite mainstream claiming coding is dead every other five year.
Good to see one company finally doing it the right way. I think this model won't beat Midjourney or others overnight but long term, this feels like smarter bet.
I wonder if they are really open or just "open" in the sense of marketing though!