<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ben Hickman · Writing</title><description>Applied AI engineer building agentic systems — RAG pipelines, multimodal retrieval, guardrails, and tool calling that hold up outside demos.</description><link>https://benhickman.dev/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>Building an Open Brain: A Persistent AI Memory System with Supabase, Discord, and MCP</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/building-open-brain-with-supabase-and-discord/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/building-open-brain-with-supabase-and-discord/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Managing the Machine: How AI is Redefining Engineering Roles</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/managing-the-machine-how-ai-is-redefining-engineering-roles/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/managing-the-machine-how-ai-is-redefining-engineering-roles/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Learning the Language of Camera Gear</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/learning-the-language-of-camera-gear/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/learning-the-language-of-camera-gear/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:57:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rethinking Modern Design for Developers</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/rethinking-modern-design-for-developers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/rethinking-modern-design-for-developers/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting started with Agentic AI using LangGraph and OpenAI </title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/agentic-ai-with-langgraph/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/agentic-ai-with-langgraph/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deep Dive: Earning All Three AWS Associate Certifications (Solutions Architect, Developer, SysOps)</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/deep-dive-earning-all-three-aws-associate-certifications-solutions-architect-developer-sysops/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/deep-dive-earning-all-three-aws-associate-certifications-solutions-architect-developer-sysops/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a Private AI Knowledge Assistant Using Open Source LLMs and LangChain</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/building-a-private-ai-knowledge-assistant-using-open-source-llms-and-langchain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/building-a-private-ai-knowledge-assistant-using-open-source-llms-and-langchain/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building My Blog with React and Sanity.io</title><link>https://benhickman.dev/writing/building-my-blog-with-react-and-sanity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://benhickman.dev/writing/building-my-blog-with-react-and-sanity/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>