
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

There was a point, not long ago, when the dominant strategy for improving large language models was simple: feed them more. More tokens, more compute, more parameters. The scaling laws made this feel almost like a law of physics — just add more and the model gets better. That era
