diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/fences.rs b/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/fences.rs
index ab5d3234d..17a67f490 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/fences.rs
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/fences.rs
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ pub fn max_atom_work(columns: usize, lines: usize, scrollback: usize) -> u64 {
 /// fixtures caught it:
 ///
 /// * The budget is checked *between* slices, so a drain overshoots by up to
-///   one whole slice -- not one atom. [`slice_bytes`] keeps that under one
+///   one whole slice -- not one atom. [`slice_bytes_remaining`] keeps that under one
 ///   budget wherever its derivation is unclamped.
 /// * A callback already running cannot be preempted. RIS at the default 10k
 ///   scrollback is worth 16x the whole budget on its own, so on such a grid
diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/reader.rs b/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/reader.rs
index 82324f460..18ce98d41 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/reader.rs
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/src/reader.rs
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ impl Feeder {
     /// per count when it finds no stop.
     ///
     /// What *is* bounded is the number of atoms per slice, and that bound
-    /// holds from the first byte of a cold feeder: [`slice_bytes`] is derived
+    /// holds from the first byte of a cold feeder: [`slice_bytes_remaining`] is derived
     /// from the densest work-per-byte upstream can produce on this grid, so
     /// no slice can contain more than one budget's worth of callbacks no
     /// matter what the payload is or what the feeder has seen before.
diff --git a/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/tests/slicing.rs b/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/tests/slicing.rs
index f4b87a0d8..26097430a 100644
--- a/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/tests/slicing.rs
+++ b/desktop/src-tauri/crates/buzz-terminal/tests/slicing.rs
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ fn a_resize_mid_tail_reprices_the_remainder() {
 /// byte count cannot bound a lock hold: `ESC c` is two bytes and resets both
 /// grids plus scrollback.
 ///
-/// Kills: replacing `slice_bytes` with a constant, or deriving it from
+/// Kills: replacing `slice_bytes_remaining` with a constant, or deriving it from
 /// `cells` while the worst atom is larger than `cells`. Measured: 256 bytes
 /// of DECALN is 1.6 ms at 200x50 and ~14 ms at 1600x50, so no one constant
 /// serves both.
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ fn extreme_dimensions_saturate_instead_of_wrapping() {
 
     // The *direction* is the assertion, not merely the absence of a panic.
     // A wrapping build does not produce a slightly-wrong bound, it produces a
-    // tiny one -- and `slice_bytes` divides the budget by it, so an
+    // tiny one -- and `slice_bytes_remaining` divides the budget by it, so an
     // undercharged atom yields an *oversized* slice exactly when the atom is
     // most expensive. Wrapping inverts the fence. So: the widest possible
     // atom must give the narrowest possible slice.