WebCamp Venlo 26: AI is eating your CMS

AI has changed how we interact with the web and enables a completely new approach on automation, built on emerging standards like MCP and ACP that allow us to build autonomous (and vendor-independent!) AI agents. In this talk, I’ll present different use cases of AI integrations in the CMS, eCommerce and IT infrastructure contexts, and in what way these change how we interact with these systems.

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1. MARTIN HELMICH @mittwald AI IS EATING YOUR CMS
2. mittwald Chief Technology Evangelist Head of Developer Relations TYPO3 Association Board Member PHWT Lecturer, Software Engineering & Cloud Computing MARTIN HELMICH
4. Photo by Đồng Phục Hải Triều on Unsplash FOR FUCK’S SAKE MARTIN, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT AI!
5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Bildhauer_Nebamun_und_Ipuki_004.jpg
7. WEB DEVELOPERS CRAFTSMEN „FIRST TIME?“ „IT ALL GOING TO END“
8. WELCOME TO YET ANOTHER AI TALK
9. mittwald’s first L40S NVIDIA cards in production PRESENTING
10. HOSTING MY OWN AI MODELS SINCE 2025 https://www.mittwald.de/mstudio/ai-hosting
11. THINGS I’VE SEEN PEOPLE DO WITH AI
12. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD?
14. A COMMON PROBLEM
15. A COMMON PROBLEM CMS CORE ( JoompalPress3 )
16. A COMMON PROBLEM CMS CORE ( JoompalPress3 ) NICE PLUGIN AWESOME PLUGIN COOL PLUGIN OPENAI ANTHROPIC BEDROCK MITTWALD OLLAMA
17. A COMMON CMS CORE ( JoompalPress3 ) NICE PLUGIN AWESOME PLUGIN COOL PLUGIN OPENAI ANTHROPIC BEDROCK MITTWALD OLLAMA PROVIDER INTERFACE PROVIDER SPECIFIC INTEGRATION PROBLEM SOLUTION
19. SIDE NOTE (for Drupal users) $ composer require drupal/ai_provider_mittwald $ drush en ai_provider_mittwald https://www.drupal.org/project/ai_provider_mittwald
21. SIDE NOTE (for Wordpress users) $ # Wordpress 6.9, only $ wp plugin install ai -- activate $ wp plugin install mittwald-ai-provider \ -- activate https://wordpress.org/plugins/mittwald-ai-provider/
23. READ FOR MORE INFORMATION : https://symfony.com/doc/current/ai/index.html
24. READ FOR MORE INFORMATION : https://symfony.com/doc/current/ai/index.html PLATFORM Standardized interfaces to multiple AI providers AGENT Framework for building your own AI agents CHAT Manage chats and conversation histories STORE Abstraction layer for vector databases and RAG systems SIDE NOTE (for Symfony users) $ composer require mittwald/symfony-ai-platform
26. HOT TAKE : Does your CMS still need a basic text editing AI, when your OS offers that, anyway?
27. PRESENTING : THE AI AGENT agents take specialized jobs within a complex workflow complex WORKFLOWS are implemented by DIVISION OF LABOUR across multiple agents agents can use TOOLS AUTONOMOUSLY
29. BRINGING THE AI INTO YOUR CMS… BRINGING YOUR CMS INTO THE AI? OR
30. M C P ODEL ONTEXT ROTOCOL SEE MORE https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
31. MCP SERVER JSON - RPC over: _ stdio (local) _ HTTP (remote) MCP CLIENT HOST LLM contains “tool calls” as structured ( JSON or XML ) output segments in predefined formats provides available tools in LLM context
36. Abilities + MCP - Server Tool API + MCP - Server MCP - Server + Symfony AI ( MCP server planned for Joomla 6 )
37. MCP UTCP UNIVERSAL TOOL CALLING PROTOCOL ( UTCP ) https://www.utcp.io/
38. HOW DOES THIS CHANGE… …how we interact with such systems? …whether we even need a backend any longer? …our products and business models?
39. MOM, CAN WE HAVE AN AI WEBSITE BUILDER? NO KID, WE HAVE AN AI WEBSITE BUILDER AT HOME THE AI WEBSITE BUILDER AT HOME :
40. THE AI WEBSITE BUILDER AT HOME :
41. CMS INDUSTRY AI WEBSITE BUILDERS
42. WOODWORKERS CNC MACHINES 3D PRINTERS POWER TOOLS
43. OWN YOUR AI
44. API ENDPOINT https://api.openai.com/v1 https://llm.aihosting.mittwald.de/v1 http://localhost:11434/v1 https://ollama.com/
45. READ : “How agencies can build smart chatbots with n8n and mittwald AI hosting” (german) https://www.mittwald.de/blog/hosting/wie-agenturen-mit-container-hosting-und-ai-hosting-smarte-chatbots-bauen
46. READ : “Let’s build an AI-driven Search on our website” SHOUT - OUT @ FRANK https://code711.de/talks/lets-build-an-ai-driven-search-on-our-website
47. SEMANTIC/VECTOR SEARCH VECTOR STORE Redis, PostgreSQL, qdrant, … CONTENT QUERY EMBEDDING MODEL SEARCH RESULT Embeddings (for chunks) Embeddings (for query) Content
48. RETRIEVAL - AUGMENTED GENERATION VECTOR STORE Redis, PostgreSQL, qdrant, … CONTENT QUERY EMBEDDING MODEL CHAT MODEL Embeddings (for chunks) Embeddings (for query) Content RESPONSE (in natural language)
49. DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY WHAT DOES MEAN, ANYWAY?
50. Own work CAVEAT OR : “WHAT PEOPLE TEND TO GET WRONG ABOUT DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY”
51. DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IS NOT… swapping dependency to an US vendor for dependency to an EU vendor DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IS… …not being dependent on any one single vendor …being able to control where your data does(n’t) go
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53. https://www.mittwald.de/karriere WE’RE HIRING Infrastructure Engineer CMS Support Engineer Product Owner CMS Hosting CMS Product Marketing Manager (all genders, on-site) MARTIN HELMICH m.helmich@mittwald.de martin.helmich@typo3.org