LeanSpace hosted gatherings and hackathons, and the AI engineer concept emerged at one of its hackathons.

“Yes, just a blog, and I had no other, no other idea apart from this is Swyx writing about AI. That's it. But we happened to host some events, like some gatherings, like, uh, oh, like, you know, ChatGPT came out, like obviously the most exciting thing-”

“... of all time. And then we wanted to host some hackathons, so we hosted a hackathon. And at the hackathon, that's where the idea for AI engineer came about, which is the realization-- It actually was this, uh, woman that came up to me and said, "I'm, I'm all in on AI.”