Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business
This is fantasy, of course.  My guess is that it's some college course doing a social experiment rather than an individual troll.  Perhaps it's called The Creation of Myth (user's name is CM-NL).  There's probably some college class out there patting themselves on the back for convincing so many people through a cleverly-crafted-but-just-a-little-too-perfect story that was tailor-made for Redditors.After all, the follow-up is basically created from the most popular responses to the original post.