
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

Imagine if every time a human hand reached into a dark shelf or pinched a small component, the robot’s vision system simply guessed where the fingers went. This is the current reality of robotic development. We’ve spent years perfecting single-view pose estimation only to hit a persistent technical ceiling: the
