Yes - When someone asks me what a particular key combination is in emacs or Eclipse, I put my fingers out like they're on a keyboard, think about doing the thing, and, look at what my fingers are doing.

To bring it back to the article: It's similar with a lot of things - you sort of need to memorize aspects of it to do it fluently. As part of calculus, you sort of need to know how to do polynomial factorization. Intuition is great and helpful, but you also need to be able to proceed methodically in order to produce or understand proofs. Scales on piano are boring, but you don't just tell kids to feel like they're Bach and they start playing Goldberg Variations. Why on earth we think the intuition is not only necessary but sufficient is unfathomable to me.