Hah, I kind of do the same, but I was then put on the spot when an interviewer asked me why I made certain technical decisions/tradeoffs. Somehow I don’t think they were impressed with the answer.
I usually get back at them by saying something like, "When you have experience as much as I do, sometimes my subconscious mind will recognize patterns that will drive my decision. You may call it 'gut feeling', I call it autonomous decision weighting using experiential pattern matching. And there's no shortcut to that ability; you just have to have decades of experience. Which I do."