A technical talk fails when it becomes a feature tour or a wall of implementation detail. The deck should make one argument: what breaks, why the obvious fix is insufficient, which trade-off you chose, and what another engineer can apply on Monday.
What you bring
- Markdown talk notes
- An incident review or postmortem
- An architecture decision record
How the deck is shaped
- The failure mode or constraint
- Why the naive approach breaks
- The chosen trade-off and evidence
- What to measure and what to try next
Where it stops
- It does not run or verify code.
- It does not create architecture diagrams from prose.
- Deep implementation detail may need an appendix.