They do apply reasonably well as long as you're solving similar problems. Even if programming language differs...

It is similar with mathematicians. A mathematician may smell a rat in a proof like a programmer a bad pattern in code, but you can only really trust their intuition in their specialty field.

E.g. web frontend programmer intuition won't do in backend, desktop UI, mobile, HPC, video game coding, embedded programming, real time applications or safety critical software.

This does not preclude polyglots and polymaths or generalists.