As of late 2025, surveys and industry data show that natural‑language prompting is a widely used assistant, not the primary interface for most developers, so Friedberg’s claim that “human language will be the dominant programming language” in 2025 has not materialized. Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey reports that 84% of respondents use or plan to use AI tools, but many use them only occasionally, 46% explicitly distrust AI output, and about three‑quarters still prefer asking human colleagues over AI for help, indicating that AI (and thus natural‑language prompts) is supplementary rather than central. (techradar.com) Studies of GitHub Copilot and large enterprise deployments find that roughly 20–33% of accepted code lines come from AI and that even at Microsoft, AI contributes only around 30% of code in some projects—meaning most code is still written and edited directly in conventional languages like Python and JavaScript. (arxiv.org) While 2025 has seen the rise of “vibe coding” and rhetoric that human language is becoming a new kind of programming language, these are consistently described as emerging trends, used mainly for prototyping or specific workflows, and accompanied by significant concerns around security and reliability, not as the default way the majority of professional software is produced. (rollingai.news) Some industry analyses claim that around 41% of global code in 2024 was AI‑generated and that a large share of vibe‑coding users are non‑developers, but even these optimistic estimates imply that most code is still authored through traditional programming and apply to subsets of teams rather than “most developers” worldwide. (secondtalent.com) Overall, natural‑language interfaces have become important and fast‑growing in 2025, but the best available evidence shows they augment rather than replace conventional programming languages, so the prediction is best judged as wrong.