"Expert intuition improves only in environments with reliable feedback.
Notice the word environments. In a release that is halfway out and already being noticed, it pulls the quote out of inspiration and into mechanism: what repeats is what the system allows. That is why intent is never enough.
In a release that is halfway out and already being noticed, good engineers will do what the system rewards. You see it in a boundary shift that moves work onto a team that did not agree, and you can’t fix it with reminders. Write it for the person who inherits it later, because they will not have today’s context or today’s goodwill.
Daniel Kahneman is a reminder to keep it concrete. Write the stop line now: what evidence ends the attempt, and what you will do when it appears. Write it so execution is obvious.