This approach reminds me of PDL (Program Design Language), described in Steve McConnell's excellent book Code Complete (1993). He recommended writing code using PDL pseudocode first. People can review your PDL before you write the code implementing the PDL, leaving the PDL as code comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_Design_Language

https://codecourse.sourceforge.net/materials/Code-Complete-A...