Here's a great TED talk discussing how babies this age go about learning how to deal with the world. Essentially there's a lot of experimentation as other folks have commented on but there's a part towards the end about how they seem to use a super sophisticated statistical model of the world to figure out the odds of things working. http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think....
Illustrator has a scripting interface baked in that can use applescript/javascript/vbscript, but I imagine scriptographer abstracts things in a beneficial way. The adobe DOM is as depressing as the browswer's.
The part that's so frustrating is that thomvest (and lots of other companies) is in the business of creating relationships and yet they don't understand how having a relationship with a designer/agency will benefit them.
I think the problem with this whole notion is that you didn't get a $25,000 website. The results look like something that could have been bought off of themeforest.net for $50 and installed in under an hour. Nothing wrong with that at all but let's not go conflating things.
And just to be clear, there are many amazing freelancers or small agencies out there that deal in the sub $5k price range that would provide the same level of service discussed in the blog post. Hell, as a small investment firm it should be obvious that there's room for both big and small and everything in between in any industry.