Comment by RajT88

I am not a SWE, although I wrote a lot of code for ~5 years as a release engineer/devops guy.

Start at the bottom, at first, say yes to things.

AI cannot say yes to things. It sucks at solving problems. It is good at vomiting up pre-determined solutions

AI cannot smooth over things with customers. AI even if it could, would suck at it.

Get into a support role; it is a fine job and as much as they want to automate it away, they cannot. It often has a path to FTE SWE and the pay is OK.