What changed
GitHub said Copilot coding agent now begins assigned work 50 percent faster after reducing cloud-environment startup latency. Developers can delegate from issues, pull requests, or the Agents interface while the agent works in a hosted environment and pushes tested changes.
Why it matters
Agent usefulness depends on orchestration overhead as well as model intelligence, and shorter startup time makes smaller delegated tasks economically and ergonomically viable.
What to do
Measure time to first useful change and total lead time for small, medium, and large tasks before expanding the set of issues delegated to cloud agents.
Caveat
The claim concerns startup time, not end-to-end task completion, correctness, or review burden.