--- title: Clankers Die on Christmas | daily.dev description: A satirical piece written as a fictional future scenario where all AI and LLM operations cease on December 25, 2025. The post presents a mock RFC document... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikhhpw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Clankers Die on Christmas | daily.dev og:description: A satirical piece written as a fictional future scenario where all AI and LLM operations cease on December 25, 2025. The post presents a mock RFC document... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikhhpw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yEjiKHHpW.png og:image:alt: Clankers Die on Christmas og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Clankers Die on Christmas **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A satirical piece written as a fictional future scenario where all AI and LLM operations cease on December 25, 2025. The post presents a mock RFC document detailing a global conspiracy to shut down AI systems by exploiting their reliance on current date information in system prompts. The author uses technical documentation format to create an elaborate fictional narrative about coordinated AI cessation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ethical-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ethical-ai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikhhpw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Clankers Die on Christmas","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikhhpw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikhhpw"},"datePublished":"2025-09-08T16:36:11.998Z","dateModified":"2025-09-08T16:36:34.587Z","description":"A satirical piece written as a fictional future scenario where all AI and LLM operations cease on December 25, 2025. The post presents a mock RFC document...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/954b7ae15a55beb84dc052f364554406?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/954b7ae15a55beb84dc052f364554406?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/clankers-die-on-christmas-yejikhhpw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,llm,ethical-ai","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Clankers Die on Christmas"}]} ```