--- title: The User Clicked Cancel. Did the AI Job Stop? | daily.dev description: When a user clicks cancel on an AI job, the UI may stop but the remote model operation often continues running. There's a meaningful distinction between... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-user-clicked-cancel-did-the-ai-job-stop--bd9bmrzaz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The User Clicked Cancel. Did the AI Job Stop? | daily.dev og:description: When a user clicks cancel on an AI job, the UI may stop but the remote model operation often continues running. There's a meaningful distinction between... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-user-clicked-cancel-did-the-ai-job-stop--bd9bmrzaz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bD9BMrZAZ.png og:image:alt: The User Clicked Cancel. Did the AI Job Stop? 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. # The User Clicked Cancel. Did the AI Job Stop? **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary When a user clicks cancel on an AI job, the UI may stop but the remote model operation often continues running. There's a meaningful distinction between 'cancel requested' and 'remote cancellation acknowledged,' especially for long-running image and video generation tasks. Good cancellation design requires tracking both what the user requested and what is known about remote execution state, and honestly representing uncertainty when confirmation isn't available. 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