His entire article is about how to be a "good engineer", and "In my view, good engineering requires having reliable shallow intuitions about how things work."

His entire article is about how to be a "good engineer", and "In my view, good engineering requires having reliable shallow intuitions about how things work." I think he's wrong, but more importantly I think he needs to be more humble that it's not "good" engineering, it's probably bad. You can get by if you're a startup and just need to get stuff done, but don't start teaching people and writing blog posts on the topic when you have shallow knowledge.