
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

Speed benchmarks in AI research can feel detached from anything practical. A paper claims a 10x speedup and you skim past it because the benchmarks never quite match the thing you’re actually trying to do. The FlexGNN result — up to 95.5x faster training on large graphs — is worth
