I'll take it a step further, the author is an idiot. I am a huge proponent of using existing libraries and plugins but it actually takes real code to make it function. Again this person is an idiot and clearly shouldn't be writing code or articles.
Yikes, harsh. I mostly agree though. I thought this article was silly and couldn't even finish it. I'm not really sure what his point was. Since the conception of software engineering as a discipline, maintainability and code reuse has been highly desirable. It's just taken a while for it to sink in for some people. Re-using code simply means you write different code instead of wasting your time; but you're still writing code.
He is pointing to a phenomenon I have witnessed which is
copy-pasta and a mediocre understanding of the domain is enough to pass as a programmer these days.