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How Long Does It Really Take to Learn Machine Learning? A Realistic Timeline

Community description: Somewhere on the internet right now, an ad is promising that anyone can become "job-ready in machine...

Dev.to | Sep 16, 2026 | Smith William

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That doesn't mean machine learning is some impossibly long, decade-spanning pursuit either. This path typically lands somewhere around 5 to 8 months. They're not lying about teaching something in 6 weeks, they're just quietly redefining what "learning machine learning" means to exclude almost everything that actually makes someone hireable.

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