# DeepSeek-R1 randomly producing "Job exception: undefined method \`finish' for nil" error

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepseek-r1-randomly-producing-job-exception-undefined-method-finish-for-nil-error/349703
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai, ai-bot
**Created:** [January 30, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepseek-r1-randomly-producing-job-exception-undefined-method-finish-for-nil-error/349703 "2025-01-30T10:57:13Z")
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### Author: ![MachineScholar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/machinescholar/32/424719_2.png) [@MachineScholar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MachineScholar)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deepseek-r1-randomly-producing-job-exception-undefined-method-finish-for-nil-error/349703/4 "2025-02-03T20:08:53Z")

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I can confirm it now works well. Currently running DeepSeek-R1 using the HuggingFace Inference API. There are intermittent 502 and 504 errors, but that’s the fault of HF I believe. Users should expect all free endpoints to be extremely busy for now lol.

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