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Does heavy library and code snippet usage make you a bad programmer?

Overall I'm in programming for about 8 years now and it seems to me that I'm relying more and more on open source libraries and snippets (damn you GitHub!) to "get the job done". I know that in time I ...
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Is it bad to reuse other programmer's code libraries that can perform generic tasks? [duplicate]

Reusing large amount of helpful codes made by other programmers is very tempting for me. I specifically refer to codes that can perform generic tasks, such as Data Access Layer (DAL) codes. I am ...