
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

Here’s a finding that genuinely surprised me when I sat with it. Shaoyang Xu and Wenxuan Zhang at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (arXiv:2601.11227, January 2026) showed that the language an LLM uses for its internal reasoning measurably changes the diversity of its English outputs — even when
