
What If “Agentic” Is a Property of the Environment, Not the Model?
There’s a quiet result from Cheng et al. (Renmin University and Microsoft Research, 2026) that I keep coming back to. They gave large language models access to a minimal sandbox
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There’s a quiet result from Cheng et al. (Renmin University and Microsoft Research, 2026) that I keep coming back to. They gave large language models access to a minimal sandbox

Most improvements to AI systems happen before deployment: better training data, better fine-tuning, better RLHF. Once the model is out in the world, you generally get the performance you trained for and nothing better. A paper from early 2026 takes a different approach. Instead of trying to bake everything into
