
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

A 34-author survey led by Yu Xia at UC San Diego — with collaborators across Adobe Research and nine other labs — was accepted to ACL 2025, and it’s worth your time if you build data pipelines. The title carries the whole argument: “From Selection to Generation.” For most of
