Comment by epolanski

I find your kind of comment pointless.

The term back pressure actually comes from mechanical engineering in the context of steam engines.

It first appeared in a dictionary 160 years ago.

Words are just words. Mathematicians very well understand that words mean nothing, what matters are definitions and the author provides one.

E.g. natural numbers may or may not contain the number 0, but that's irrelevant, because what mathematicians care for are definitions, so they will state that natural numbers are a given a set of positive whole numbers (including or not the number 0) and avoid arguing about labels. You can call them funky numbers or neet numbers, doesn't matter.

Same applies here. Your comment is pointless because the author does provide a definition for back pressure in the context of his blog post and what matters is discussing the concept he labels in the context of LLMs.