Intuition is a third mode of knowing, distinct from analysis and from luck. It integrates incommensurables. It draws on embodied knowledge that resists symbolic articulation. It is doing the cognitive work that gets attributed to taste or judgment when the work is really being done somewhere else.
Most professional cultures treat intuition as either unfinished analysis (something to be replaced when we have enough data) or as random guessing (something to be apologised for). Both readings are wrong. Intuition does work that neither analysis nor luck can do.
The essay below argues that intuition may be the one form of cognition AI cannot meaningfully approximate, and traces what kinds of work specifically depend on it.