Cloud agents now start 3x faster so you can hand them ambitious, long-running ta

Cursor says its cloud agents now start three times faster, and credits the gain to what it calls builds: ready-to-use development environments that Cursor prepares continuously in the background, at no additional cost. The change moves setup work ahead of the request. Because a prepared environment already exists when a task arrives, less of the wait happens after the user hands the work over.

Cursor presents the faster start as a reason to give agents ambitious, long-running tasks to carry out from start to finish. The announcement measures only startup, though. It does not say what the 3x figure is measured against or give any figure for how long tasks take to complete, and the attached video, which may show a demonstration, could not be reviewed.