Comment by bogwog

There's no simple universal roadmap for becoming competent. You just need to grind out whatever skill you're trying to master as much as possible. 10000 hours is the common number thrown around, but plenty of programmers have been doing it for more than that and can't even tell you how an emulator is supposed to work.

So to answer your question: work longer and harder than the people who don't know how to write a PS3 emulator (especially those who think they can take a shortcut with AI)