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Telegram Serverless

https://core.telegram.org/bots/serverless
43•soheilpro•3h ago

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stavros•1h ago
This is off-topic, but I was kind of surprised to see this page written by Claude. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, but I somehow didn't expect it.
jore•1h ago
Out of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?
fakeBeerDrinker•50m ago
Possibly the excessive use of em dashes. Just a guess.
mohammedmsgm•47m ago
This is so obvious

The most AI generated MD in existence. It's also th excessive use of bold, only AI can make bold hard to read.

fakeBeerDrinker•44m ago
Reply to the parent, not me. I understand this.
usui•38m ago
I often see replies to AI-generated posts being pointed out here asking what makes it obvious. Is it that difficult to notice the indicators? Is it mostly undetected by English-as-a-second-language speakers, people inexperienced with generative AI, or is it something else?
vidarh•6m ago
I rather think the surprise is a result of technical users wildly overestimating how obvious these markers are to people.
zackkrida•38m ago
language, structure. look how much negation there is. the construction "no A, no B, no, C" is used several times.

or another example, the following sentence:

"handlers/ is flat — no subdirectories"

who writes like this? you'd just write "handlers/ is a flat folder" or similar.

petercooper•26m ago
"it doesn't silently go unnoticed", "would be silently inert", "instead of silently overwriting", "you can never silently overwrite"

The biggest tell for me is overuse of the term "silently". "quietly" is another one you often see from Claude in particular. Models love adverbs for whatever reason, whereas a human writer would use them in moderation for emphasis or prefer terms like "by accident".

haunter•15m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
dist-epoch•14m ago
I finds it surprising you find it surprising.

Is this the best use of a human, to write a long, detailed manual for a feature? Which most likely will be read by another LLM?

raybb•1h ago
Providing a SQLite db out of the box is a nice touch. I wonder if they're capping it's size in any way.
eamag•58m ago
What are the quotas like execution time, storage etc?
xd1936•16m ago
Thinking about using this to run my Plex server
domh•41m ago
This is cool. I wish Signal had a bot API like telegram's.
victorbjorklund•36m ago
I don't see anything about pricing.
catapart•26m ago
I'm also curious about this.
dist-epoch•13m ago
sounds free to me
dzonga•30m ago
telegram is full of bots and spam.

before it was a better WhatsApp alternative. now either WhatsApp or Signal.

sgt•29m ago
They should start charging for it. Like not a lot, maybe just a coffee a month. That should keep the bots away.
kelvinjps10•28m ago
those bots are different to these ones, for these you have to start the interaction. bots is the most useful feature of telegram
TacticalCoder•25m ago
I use Telegram only for groups with people I know. I've got zero issues with boths.

Are you using public channels? (are those even a thing with Telegram?)

flexagoon•8m ago
> are those even a thing with Telegram?

It is the thing with Telegram

embedding-shape•5m ago
> telegram is full of bots

It's been a core feature of Telegram since almost the beginning, and one of the main reasons I end up using Telegram, not sure why you'd think this is a drawback. The spam sucks though, not sure how they haven't got a handle on it yet.

AnonC•23m ago
Emphasis mine:

> Each invocation runs in a lightweight V8 isolate, close to Telegram's own systems, so calls to the Bot API and your database are quick and reliable.

Telegram’s servers are distributed worldwide. I understand that the calls to the Bot API may be quick because the serverless code would be propagated to the edge, but how does it handle an SQLite DB? Is that also replicated to guarantee quick access from anywhere?

netsharc•7m ago
My first guess would be replicaton isn't that critical, because a user would mostly interact with an instance that's nearby, and this instance has their data. But the page mentions:

> Games and Tools — including leaderboards, quizzes and more.

A leaderboard that's globally consistent, huh, that's not trivial.

Maybe they just propagate the SQL commands to all their servers...

weli•7m ago
I guess the v8 isolate is heavily restricted and sandboxed and can't be used to access the local filesystem
bdcravens•9m ago
With the popularity of Hermes, OpenClaw, etc, BotFather is quite a linchpin in the AI ecosystem.
mschuster91•2m ago
Good lord. This reeks of LLM... why should I use your product when you can't be bothered to have a human write it? Why should I trust it to work correctly or have been decently tested, neither of which is a given when having an AI vibe-code it?

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