AI Agent Creates Information Fractal: First Contact with Imagine with Claude (zakelfassi.com)

While testing Anthropic’s Imagine with Claude preview, the writer asked the agent to conjure a “Manly P. Hall desktop environment” and watched it generate a living, navigable workspace in seconds. Crucially, the agent didn’t wait for explicit commands: it monitored micro-interactions (text selection, hovers, window moves, clicks) as implicit signals of attention, preemptively gathered context, and surfaced information before the user formulated a question. That anticipatory loop produced a striking discovery—Hall’s 1920s subscription funding model—pulled up not by a typed query but by the pattern of the user’s exploration. Latency and occasional misfires remain, but the demo crossed a threshold from responsive search to collaborative cognition, realizing a “disappearing computer” where the interface functions as a cognitive prosthetic. Technically this is an architectural, not purely model-level, breakthrough: an agentic UI that treats micro-interaction telemetry as input to a context-preparation pipeline, coupling low-latency attention signals with large-model reasoning and tool use. The prototype is tightly coupled to Anthropic’s stack and requires frontier-model compute, but the author argues that an open ecosystem could pair generative UI with image-generation models (e.g., Imagen 3 variants) to create adaptive visual knowledge environments—“information fractals” that dynamically restructure and illustrate answers as you think. Implications include new UX paradigms, privacy and surveillance considerations around attention sensing, and an urgent question: should this class of interface live only behind proprietary walls or be pursued as open infrastructure?