The fact that this is happening is where the tremendous opportunity to make money as an experienced Software Engineer currently lies.

For instance, a year or two ago, the AI people discovered "cache". Imagine how many millions the people who implemented it earned for that one.

What we need are "idea dice" or "concept dice" for CS – each side could have a vague architectural nudge like "parallelize", "interpret", "precompute", "predict and unwind", "declarative"...

I've been thinking the same, and its things that you don't need some crazy ML degree to know how to do... A lot of the algorithms are known... for a while now... Milk it while you can.