Ironically the author of the original post is probably a LLM reddit spam bot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50434474

But in any case, in that hypothetical scenario, just automate your day job and spend time coding a side project you're passionate about. You might have to spend 10 minutes out of every hour prompting, but hey, that's still 400 minutes a day for your side project of choice.