I find neither examples I came up with convincing. But are there circumstances where applying intuition at lower levels is a strategic mistake?
Applying intuition at lower levels is a strategic mistake when you are substantially more certain that your high-level intuition is well-honed, than you are of your ability to explicitly decompose the high level into lower-level components.
(It can also be a strategic mistake for computational-cost reasons, as I outline in my other comment.)
Applying intuition at lower levels is a strategic mistake when you are substantially more certain that your high-level intuition is well-honed, than you are of your ability to explicitly decompose the high level into lower-level components.
(It can also be a strategic mistake for computational-cost reasons, as I outline in my other comment.)