
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

For most of the last six years, the most capable LLMs were locked behind APIs. You could call them, you could build on them, but you couldn’t look inside, customize the weights, or run them on your own infrastructure. That was simply the reality of working with frontier models. In
