I guess I'm in the minority in actually agreeing with the original post. I like when talks include code examples but hate it when a presenter brings up an empty

I guess I'm in the minority in actually agreeing with the original post. I like when talks include code examples but hate it when a presenter brings up an empty SublimeText window and starts typing away. Just have it already written, show me briefly, and move on. I can understand your code snippet faster than you can type it, unless it's horribly written or your talk up to that point has not explained things properly. Which is not to say there are zero presentations that are based on live coding that are good. There may even be a few. But my experience has been most presentations that are based around live coding are terrible. I've seen presentations that include live coding that are good, but these presentations are actually well thought out and complete, and the live coding is only a small element, and the presenter has pre-created examples that the are basically "filling in the blanks" on. Most presenters, though, I think would be well served to stick with the standard "show a snippet on a slide" method.