Is This Thing On? Claude’s Surprisingly Funny AI Standup Debut

How LLMs Turn Latent Space into Punchlines—and What That Means for Intelligence, Humor, and (Yes) World Domination

I typically find Claude humor extremely cheesy. So when Amanda Askell recently posted actually good highlights from Claude’s AI open mic set, it wasn’t just a novelty. It was an interesting milestone in how large language models (LLMs) are learning to navigate a deeply human domain: humor. Whether Claude was quipping about “debugging JavaScript” as a fo…