The home for great developer writing.

We surface the best developer writing from thousands of independent blogs, updated daily.

github: Copilot cloud agent starts 20% faster with Actions custom images

1 · Sujith Quintelier · April 28, 2026, 4:34 a.m.

github copilot actions software development

Summary

GitHub has improved the startup time of its Copilot cloud agent by over 20% by utilizing optimized runner environments that are built with GitHub Actions custom images.

Read full post on quintelier.dev →

MORE POSTS LIKE THIS

github: Upcoming deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash

Sujith Quintelier · Aug 12, 2026

github software development

GitHub throttles struggling Copilot over 'intensifying' usage

Thestack · Apr 21, 2026

AI github

You can just choose how many bugs you want now

nolanlawson · Aug 16, 2026

software-engineering AI

★ Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

Daring Fireball · Aug 16, 2026

AI Ethics text-generation

A faster way to calculate the Day of the Week

Ben Joffe · Aug 16, 2026

Performance Optimization modulus techniques

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

simonw · Aug 16, 2026

AI Generative AI

Discover more posts →

AUTHOR