19-year-old builds Telegram AI agent: 'It's just a wrapper, that's all'
PowerOk7047 · reddit · 2026-10-04
A 19-year-old developer shared how he's learning AI agents by building Mario, a Telegram chatbot, candidly admitting "it's a wrapper, that's all — no new model, no special trick."
The architecture is simple: Telegram delivers the message, his wrapper code prepends a short instruction ("you are Mario, text like a friend") plus recent chat history, sends it to the LLM, posts the reply back, and stores each turn so context carries over. The model never talks to Telegram directly — the wrapper does all the glue work.
Next step: plugging multiple LLMs into the same wrapper so he can swap models without rewriting the bot. He's soliciting feedback from the community.
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