Programmer Junk Food

Consuming this article feels like empty calories. Satisfying, but there's nothing there. It doesn't even define beyond a single example of "watching someone do a tutorial", what the author thinks constitutes "programmer junk food".

Is this about all youtube / stream content? Or about tutorials and tech's fascination with chasing new languages / paradigms over honing skills? Or specifically about a single niche of watching programmers do tutorials?

Reading blogs about functional programming when you should be learning assembly language and FORTRAN instead?