Talk:Meta Ability Creation/@comment-31013928-20170326184805/@comment-4867780-20170326213726

The second seems more likely, according to the Powers As Programs trope. This power is indeed very similar to programming (although it does most of the work in an automatic way), and the "accumulate an unlimited number of abilities without any side-effect" part clearly hints towards an external "bag of tricks", as it probably wouldn't be sustainable from a physiological perspective.