While I don't consider myself as a senior engineer, I do try to create mental models before coding. Also, in the code, I create the flow using comment statement

While I don't consider myself as a senior engineer, I do try to create mental models before coding. Also, in the code, I create the flow using comment statements which can later be replaced with actual code. I developed the habit of dry running my code when I started to learn code using GW-BASIC, way back in time.