
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

If you’ve worked on NLP for low-resource languages — Yoruba, Quechua, Tigrinya, Hmong — you know the math is brutal. Native speakers with domain expertise are scarce. Their time is expensive. The data needs are enormous. And you can’t bootstrap from a “close enough” language without inheriting serious bias. A
