> My internal thought process when writing code uses lots of intermediate steps that would be hard to write out in English.

This is something really interesting to me. It turns out there's far more diversity in thinking than you'd imagine given that we're all largely similar meat-in-a-box. I'm on the visio-spatial-tacit wing and speaking my thoughts outloud can be very awkward, whereas one of my former coworkers is on the "all thinking is in words and visual/spatial information comes in the form of words describing the scene" wing, so he can literally narrate his thought process out loud, very interesting conversations can be had discussing the subjective differences.

interesting, probably has something to do with why some people like pair programming. I'm in the visio-spatial-tacit and refuse pair programming because its so much work, but all thinking in words its probably not a stretch.