
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

The “more data wins” era is mostly over. What’s replacing it is messier and more interesting: a stack of techniques — fine-tuning, preference optimization, retrieval — each with its own cost curve, its own failure modes, and its own demands on data quality. Pick the wrong lever and you can
