You can’t draw any information from this, except perhaps that the author avoided Second System Syndrome.
In college I worked with students who had programming jobs. While my classmates were spending fifteen+ hours on assignments, one of these coworkers who I shared a class with said he was spending two hours and I thought he was lying. Another was claiming three or four. This must be bravado I thought.
Next summer I got a programming job too. That fall I was spending six hours on homework, and by year’s end I was down to three.
When everything is new you go slow. You have to solve problems without muscle memory, and you have to fight nervousness. Am I doing this wrong? Is this even a good answer?
They talk about 10000 hours and mastery, but there are also clear breakpoints at 100 and 1000 hours, where you know enough to do a lot, and you don’t have to stop to consider your first moves.