I've noticed that there's a conflict between the needs for communication and explanations, versus the more "mystical" (intuition-based pattern recognition, hunc

I've noticed that there's a conflict between the needs for communication and explanations, versus the more "mystical" (intuition-based pattern recognition, hunches, habits) aspects of programming (and debugging). Also the thing when experience coalesces into aesthetic taste that makes wrong solutions just feel bad or ugly. (It's also very possible to develop intuitions and tastes that actually aren't based in reality, kind of like erroneous folk wisdom.)