A practical, jargon-light introduction to what LLMs are, what they are not, and how ColdFusion developers can start using AI without mistaking the robot for the application.

A hands-on first step into ColdFusion AI, using ChatModel() to send a prompt, get a response, and understand where simple stateless AI calls fit before things get complicated.

How to move beyond stateless AI calls by giving your ColdFusion assistant short-term memory, user-specific context, and preferences without accidentally turning it into a cross-user gossip appliance.

Letting your AI assistant call real ColdFusion application logic through carefully constrained CFC tools, while keeping validation, authorization, and production safety exactly where they belong: in your code.

MCP lets your ColdFusion AI assistant connect to external tools, prompts, and resources through a standard protocol, without pretending the robot should be trusted with every system it can reach.

RAG lets your ColdFusion AI assistant answer from your own documents instead of guessing, while still respecting permissions, freshness, source quality, and the basic rule that the robot only reads what ColdFusion allows.

How to validate, block, redact, and safely fail AI inputs and outputs before your helpful assistant becomes a compliance incident with a loading spinner.

A quick reference for the core ColdFusion AI concepts, when to use them, and what to watch for.

Stop building admin consoles your support team will never use. Here’s how Slack became the UI for our ColdFusion support chat instead.

Think every realtime app needs WebSockets? Mine didn’t. Here’s why Server-Sent Events were the simpler, more reliable choice for ColdFusion.

A good chat starts with a great data model. Design conversations, messages, and Slack threads that won’t haunt Future You in production.

Before writing a single line of CFML, get Slack configured the right way. Bots, permissions, threads, secrets, and the setup tutorials usually skip.

Build a reusable Slack integration in ColdFusion. Post messages, create threads, store thread IDs, and lay the foundation for production-ready chat.

Securely receive Slack events in ColdFusion by verifying signatures, rejecting replay attacks, handling duplicate deliveries, and queueing webhooks for reliable processing.

Learn how to separate HTTP handling from business logic by routing verified Slack Events API callbacks into clean application services, filtering noise, and building maintainable event-driven ColdFusion integrations.

So you were just welcomed to “the modern world.” Before you smile and nod, let’s unpack why “it’s old” isn’t an engineering argument, and how to respond without flipping a desk.