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Live screen context vs pasted screenshots

Screen share gives continuous visual context — powerful for coaching, wasteful if a 1-line paste would do.

Open any notes app and build a 4-column decision table: Task | Paste text enough? | Needs live screen? | Secrets risk (Y/N). Fill in 3 real work tasks. You're done when, for the one row marked 'needs live screen,' you've listed 3 things to close first (like a password manager, Slack DMs, or a client folder).

Worked example

Grok and similar tools can now watch your screen throughout a voice session — continuous context, not just a single screenshot. Use it when a bug is visual or spans multiple windows; skip it when a pasted error message would do just fine. Before you share: close password managers and any client PII. And remember, continuous sight isn't continuous permission — you still own send and deploy.

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