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jerjerjer04/24/20252 repliesview on HN

Picasso explicitly wanted his designs (for cutlery, plates, household items he designed) to be mass-produced, so your question is not as straightforward as you make it to be.


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bgwalter04/24/2025

What is the connection to machine generated code? He designed the items manually and mass produced them.

No one objects to a human writing code and selling copies.

Apart from that, this is the commercial Picasso who loved money. His early pre-expressionist paintings are godlike in execution, even if someone else has painted a Pierrot before him.

alpaca12804/24/2025

Picasso also never said this, and this quote is about ideas, not automation.