I waste so much time trying to make every function perfect. I'll rewrite a simple validation three times when the first version worked. When do you just commit and move on? This is killing my productivity.

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Code review exists for a reason. I stopped trying to be perfect and started letting reviewers catch issues instead.

I don’t think this is the way. I’d really like to not lean on my reviewers to do that work for me. I lean on LLMs for these small things now

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