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>>dillon+(OP)
I personally have aphantasia, and, funny enough, I don't visualize anything when I'm coding, or reading code: I just understand the concept more or less deeply, but always without any images: It's just the "concept" that I understand. It's really like if I had an interpreter in my head when reading and when coding, I do the opposite: I know the required sequence and I reverse engineer it to the programming language version.

Do you guys really have schema in mind??

>>n0n0n4+js3
Many of us work the way you do, more or less of the time, and I think the fair term to use for that is fluency.

But I also think there are many working engineers, including some who have been in the trade for a very long time, that don't develop it.

There are surely other roads to doing good work without fluency, just like there is when forced to work in a foregin language with only modest proficiency, but I can't help but suspect it's a much more exhausting experience.