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I am currently one of these guys in transition. Using Gladwell's 10,000 hour as a proxy for mastery. I estimate getting between 100 - 250 hours of programming time is good enough to get a working MVP out.

Does anyone think this is overly optimistic or unrealistic?

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Ive read it takes about 6 months. To be honest a lot of it is about deliberate practice rather than just 'getting in the hours'

"Deliberate practice" is, in fact, what Gladwell is saying the 10,000 hours should measure.

You mean it just takes a fixed amount of time to internalise yourself with a new field of study just like anything else? And for programming that lead time is about 6 months to get up to speed?

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