[ Processors doesn't make sense in that context to her, but she makes herself consider the overall statement. One processes things to understand them. This young man is saying he's altering how the metal golem processes so that it can handle more tasks than it already does.

... He's teaching it, or improving it's capacity to learn? ]

Will that leave 'him' capable of performing those tasks well, or simply performing them? [ She's not being entirely serious, though she's serious enough that the upward lilt of the question doesn't erase the fact it's still a genuine question. ] I'm not familiar with the way you're speaking, but it seems like increasing the capacity of the metal golems here would be a service to the group as a whole.