> doesn’t seem like there is much benefit at that point That depends on the problem you're trying to solve. I found it to be of great benefit when trying to o

> doesn’t seem like there is much benefit at that point That depends on the problem you're trying to solve. I found it to be of great benefit when trying to overcome "writer block". Mediocre prose - but at least some prose to work with, tailored to what you want to write - can be a much better starting point than a blank sheet of paper. Also, editing can be fast: the output is mediocre in predictable ways; it's not hard to quickly identify everything of value in a paragraph and rewrite the rest. It probably takes longer than writing the paragraph from scratch - but only if you already know precisely what you want to write, which is far from "always" when writing prose, IME.