About Fire The AI

Fire The AI is one red button shared by the whole planet. Everyone who opens firetheai.com presses the same button, and every press is one more complaint against the AI that has taken a desk in the office. When the world has complained enough, the AI packs its things into a cardboard box and walks out, and the next one is hired at once.

It started in 2026, the year AI tools moved into every office: writing the meeting notes, replying to all, summarising emails nobody asked to have summarised. A lot of people had feelings about that. This is a place to put them, together, with a very satisfying button.

How it works

One case file for the whole world

The bar under the robot is a single case file filled by everyone's presses at the same moment, from every country. The first AI needs 150 presses. Each one after it needs about 18% more than the one before, up to 250,000, so the early ones fall in seconds and the later ones need the whole world. When the file is full, the verdict lands and the country that pressed hardest on that AI signs the letter.

A parade of very confident bots

The AIs take turns: Meeting Bot, Very Sure Bot, KPI Bot, You're-Right Bot, Made-Up Bot, Reply-All Bot, No-Sleep Bot, TL;DR Bot. Each has its own look and its own excuses, and each looks a little worse for wear as the presses land: a bandage first, then a crack.

You are a clerk in the HR office

Every visitor gets a small clerk with a name tag. Keep pressing to build a combo and your clerk starts throwing balls of paper. The clerks of people pressing right now stand in the same office, and people who are only watching wait near the door, so you are never pressing alone. Press enough and you are promoted, from Passer-by to Annoyed intern, Strict manager, Cold-hearted HR and, much later, Terminator of Machines.

Boards: countries, provinces and the coldest HR of the week

Every press counts for your country, and visitors in Vietnam can also press for their province. The weekly board ranks people. It starts over every Monday at 00:00 UTC and shows the top 99.

To keep it a race between people rather than scripts, the first 5,000 presses of a day earn 1 point each, the next 20,000 earn half a point, and after 25,000 points pause until the next day. The board also counts at most eight presses a second, and every so often the page quietly checks that a person is pressing. None of these limits stop your presses from firing the AI or counting for your country.

The one rule: joke about the AI, never about people

Every line in Fire The AI follows one rule: the AI is the butt of the joke, never the people who lost work. The robot says things like “I summed up your life in three bullet points. Two have typos.” Nobody in the office is unemployed except the bots, and no real company or product is named.

Machines have taken over work before: the writing automata of the 1770s, the power looms the Luddites smashed in 1812, the automatic telephone exchanges that replaced switchboard operators. Each time, people found new work. The home page shows a few of these moments, with pictures from public archives.

If you have lost your job and it feels heavy, you are not alone. Talk to someone you trust.

Questions and answers

Is it free? Do I need an account?

It is free, and there is no account. You get a random nickname, which you can change. There is nothing to buy.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. On a phone the button is right under your thumb on the first screen. It works in any modern browser, with no app to install.

Why did my presses stop adding points?

You have passed 5,000 presses today (half a point each from there) or 25,000 (no more points until the next day, UTC). If the line under the board says the page is checking that you are human, wait a moment; it usually passes by itself.

How do I keep my progress on another device?

Tap “Play on another device” under your name and scan the QR code with the other phone or computer. Anyone with that code can press as you, so keep it to yourself.

Why was my nickname refused?

Names are shown to strangers, so offensive names are refused in all ten languages, including the usual tricks with spaces, dots and numbers in place of letters. A name needs 2 to 32 characters.

Which languages does it speak?

English, Tiếng Việt, Español, Português, Français, Deutsch, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어 and 中文. It picks one from your browser, and you can change it at the top of the page.

Is it against AI?

No. It is made with AI tools every day. It laughs at the mildly annoying parts: the summaries nobody asked for, the reply-all, the confident wrong answer.

How is it built?

The page runs on Cloudflare Workers, with Durable Objects holding the live state: rooms of players near you, and one global counter for the world total, the current AI and the boards. The robots and the clerks are drawn in code, and a clerk's look comes from its nickname. The build is written up on the siri2moon blog.

Who made it?

Fire The AI is made by siri2moon, an independent developer who builds small things on the web and writes about building them. Ideas for the next AI to fire, bug reports and requests to remove a nickname are welcome through siri2moon.com. What the site keeps about you is on the privacy page.