The headline implies the content is a waste of time to engage with.

No it doesn't. The headline is ambiguous and you inserted your own biases without confirming they align with the real world.

Normally I agree, but this is a Lamport talk. His stuff is pretty much always worth engaging with. I have learned more from his writings than nearly any other human in my life.

For those who think tl;dw here's a PDF of the talk linked on the page

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/sites/default/files/presentat...

After reading the whole thing I'm not sure how the title describes the presentation.

450 page (slide) PDF. We need a tl;dr on the tl;dw.

Some slides are just a series with text slowly revealed. If merge them down is <1/5 of this number (the page counting ends with 41 which should've been 42 since ending slide is distinct from previous).

Presentation showcases how coding is just a part of programming, and at a point states it explicitly:

>Programming should be thinking followed by coding.

Maybe if nouns were switched, i.e. Programming Isn't Coding, will've been better.

Those words are nearly synonymous to me. Perhaps "Programming isn't thinking"?