Here’s what I do: once I’ve gotten something working, I don’t put up the PR immediately. I let it sit for a day, then I look at it the next morning with fresh e

Here’s what I do: once I’ve gotten something working, I don’t put up the PR immediately. I let it sit for a day, then I look at it the next morning with fresh eyes. Inevitably, I find things to clean up, improve, and refactor. Maybe you’re talking about getting something “working” in the larger sense, as in a full feature, made up of lots of PRs, but slowing things down just a little bit and focusing on quality in each individual PR is much easier to budget for (no one notices the extra half day) and buys you a lot of quality in the long run.