Overview

As these new-age tools like Lovable, Bolt and Alpha grow more and more in everyday use - developers will essentially need to stop vibe coding and focus on software design.

What is software design?

Software design is the process of planning how a software or app will work before you build it.

Imagine you're building a house. You don’t just start laying bricks — you first make a blueprint showing where the rooms, doors, and windows will go. Software design is that blueprint for software.

It helps decide:

• What each part of the software should do

• How those parts will talk to each other

• How users will interact with it (like buttons, screens, etc.)

Good design makes the software easier to build, change, and use.

On a technical level it is essentially a decomposition problem: how can you convert large complex systems into smaller manageable units that is implementable with ease with a certain degree of independence. There are traditionally two approaches to software design:

1. Top-down: You start planning at top and then decompose into independent components

2. Bottom-up: The more popular one, wherein you just build it and keep putting the pieces together

Why software design matters?

Ever since GPT came into existence and has been finding its way in software development, there's a new wave of 'tactical tornadoes' i.e people who proliferate code generation quickly but leave high volume of technical debt, essentially who get the 80% done quickly — leaving the 20% behind, similar to the 70-30 problem

There are certainly few things which are pretty clear of what AI can do: It is easier than ever to churn out low-level code OR autocomplete code with AI. This does not mean that is low-quality it can be quite high-quality

The main question is to what degree AI can replace the high-level tasks with more abstraction involved.

Concluding thoughts

You need to understand how to be your AI tools' "Product Manager" and essentially guide to well-crafted and scoped out prompts. That is the only way for effective results.

You can give Dualite Alpha a shot, and with our extensive guide, things should be easier than ever.