The Learning Curve

Ensemble coding means James Herr and Arthur Morrow spend most of their workday on the same task at the same time. In this episode, the two engineers join Matt Sharp and Holly Fake to unpack what AI pair programming looks like on their team and how AI agents have changed the practice. Their conversation covers how their team splits navigator and driver roles, why the hardest part of AI implementati...

A bar conversation. A handshake. A three-week AI proof of concept on a pig farm. Not every AI project starts with a formal brief, and some of the best ones don't. In this episode, Matt Sharp and Holly Fake sit down with Flexion software engineer Senai Mesfin to walk through the AI invoice automation proof of concept the team built for Hanor, a pork producer operating across six US states. Using AW...

Everyone's talking about AI. Fewer organizations have actually decided what they stand for when it comes to using it. In this episode, Matt Sharp and Holly Fake sit down with Scott Hasse, one of Flexion's founding partners, to talk through how Flexion built its AI policy from the ground up. What triggered it, who was in the room, and what they were trying to get right. Scott talks honestly about t...

In this episode of Learning Curve, we explore how AI has quietly become a natural part of agile workflows without feeling disruptive or forced. Matt Sharp and Holly Fake are joined by Shawn Cleary, a scrum master at Flexion, to discuss how AI tools support real, everyday work across planning, sprints, retrospectives, and team communication. Shawn shares how AI shows up throughout a sprint, from su...

In this episode of Learning Curve, we cut through the AI hype to explore how AI agents and large language models are actually being used in day-to-day workflows at Flexion. Matt Sharp and Holly Fake sit down with Kevin Varga to talk about the real transition from limited AI use to multi-agent systems that support productivity, experimentation, and creative problem solving. We cover practical AI us...

In episode 4 of Learning Curve, we explore what it really means to apply AI and emerging technology outside of labs and big tech companies. Host Matt Sharp and Holly Fake sit down with innovators working hands-on in regenerative systems, experimentation, and real-world problem solving. This episode moves beyond hype to unpack how applied artificial intelligence, learning through iteration, and hum...

In this episode of Learning Curve, we sit down with a Flexion engineer to explore what happens when AI meets a legacy COBOL system. From proofs-of-concept and evaluation datasets to healthy skepticism and quality standards, this conversation breaks down what it actually takes to bring AI into mission-critical, decades-old software, without the hype.

In this episode of Learning Curve, Matt Sharp sits down with a guest who has taken a bold, modern approach to career building: writing their own job description. The conversation explores how AI, creativity, and human agency are reshaping the way we define work and the roles we choose to inhabit

In the very first episode, we will be talking about taking the first big step toward integrating AI into your organization. We’re sharing the inside story of how Flexion invested in AI, not just in tools or software, but by hiring our first-ever AI Strategist.