diff --git a/helion/_compiler/compile_environment.py b/helion/_compiler/compile_environment.py
index 09d63af11..f7ae06fcc 100644
--- a/helion/_compiler/compile_environment.py
+++ b/helion/_compiler/compile_environment.py
@@ -281,7 +281,17 @@ def to_fake(self, obj: object, origin: Origin) -> object:
                 with self.shape_env.ignore_fresh_unbacked_symbols():
                     return self.shape_env.create_unbacked_symbool()
             if isinstance(obj, int):
-                return self.create_unbacked_symint()
+                # Preserve the concrete value as the initial hint so that
+                # subsequent hl.specialize() calls can recover the real value
+                # rather than falling back to the generic size hint.
+                sym = self.create_unbacked_symint(hint=obj)
+                try:
+                    source = origin.to_source()
+                except NotImplementedError:
+                    pass
+                else:
+                    self.shape_env.var_to_sources[sym._sympy_()] = [source]
+                return sym
             if isinstance(obj, float):
                 with self.shape_env.ignore_fresh_unbacked_symbols():
                     return self.shape_env.create_unbacked_symfloat()
diff --git a/test/test_views.expected b/test/test_views.expected
index e9c86e941..8a055bbe0 100644
--- a/test/test_views.expected
+++ b/test/test_views.expected
@@ -1,6 +1,53 @@
 This file is automatically generated by assertExpectedJournal calls in test_views.py.
 Update expected outputs by running tests with the EXPECTTEST_ACCEPT=1 environment variable set.
 
+--- assertExpectedJournal(TestViews.test_specialize_reshape)
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import torch
+import triton
+import triton.language as tl
+from helion.runtime import default_launcher as _default_launcher
+
+@triton.jit
+def _helion_fn(reshaped, out, _BLOCK_SIZE_2: tl.constexpr):
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: for tile in hl.tile(reshaped.size()):
+    num_blocks_0 = 2
+    num_blocks_1 = 3
+    pid_0 = tl.program_id(0) % num_blocks_0
+    pid_1 = tl.program_id(0) // num_blocks_0 % num_blocks_1
+    pid_2 = tl.program_id(0) // (num_blocks_0 * num_blocks_1)
+    offset_0 = pid_0
+    indices_0 = offset_0 + tl.zeros([1], tl.int32)
+    offset_1 = pid_1
+    indices_1 = offset_1 + tl.zeros([1], tl.int32)
+    offset_2 = pid_2 * _BLOCK_SIZE_2
+    indices_2 = (offset_2 + tl.arange(0, _BLOCK_SIZE_2)).to(tl.int32)
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: out[tile] = reshaped[tile] + 1
+    load = tl.load(reshaped + (indices_0[:, None, None] * 96 + indices_1[None, :, None] * 32 + indices_2[None, None, :] * 1), None)
+    v_0 = 1.0
+    v_1 = load + v_0
+    tl.store(out + (indices_0[:, None, None] * 96 + indices_1[None, :, None] * 32 + indices_2[None, None, :] * 1), v_1, None)
+
+def fn(x: torch.Tensor, chunk_size: int, *, _launcher=_default_launcher):
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: batch, seqlen = x.shape
+    batch, seqlen = x.shape
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: chunk_size = hl.specialize(chunk_size)
+    chunk_size = 32
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: nchunks = (seqlen + chunk_size - 1) // chunk_size
+    nchunks = (seqlen + chunk_size - 1) // chunk_size
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: reshaped = x.reshape(batch, nchunks, chunk_size)
+    reshaped = x.reshape(batch, nchunks, chunk_size)
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: out = torch.empty_like(reshaped)
+    out = torch.empty_like(reshaped)
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: for tile in hl.tile(reshaped.size()):
+    _BLOCK_SIZE_2 = 32
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: for tile in hl.tile(reshaped.size()):
+    # src[test_views.py:N]:     out[tile] = reshaped[tile] + 1
+    _launcher(_helion_fn, (2 * 3 * triton.cdiv(32, _BLOCK_SIZE_2),), reshaped, out, _BLOCK_SIZE_2, num_warps=4, num_stages=1)
+    # src[test_views.py:N]: return out.reshape(batch, seqlen)
+    return out.reshape(batch, seqlen)
+
 --- assertExpectedJournal(TestViews.test_reshape_sum)
 from __future__ import annotations
 
diff --git a/test/test_views.py b/test/test_views.py
index 51fe0535d..894106fc8 100644
--- a/test/test_views.py
+++ b/test/test_views.py
@@ -16,6 +16,28 @@
 
 
 class TestViews(RefEagerTestBase, TestCase):
+    def test_specialize_reshape(self):
+        @helion.kernel()
+        def fn(x: torch.Tensor, chunk_size: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+            batch, seqlen = x.shape
+            chunk_size = hl.specialize(chunk_size)
+            nchunks = (seqlen + chunk_size - 1) // chunk_size
+            reshaped = x.reshape(batch, nchunks, chunk_size)
+            out = torch.empty_like(reshaped)
+            for tile in hl.tile(reshaped.size()):
+                out[tile] = reshaped[tile] + 1
+            return out.reshape(batch, seqlen)
+
+        chunk_size = 32
+        x = torch.randn(2, chunk_size * 3, device=DEVICE)
+        code, result = code_and_output(
+            fn,
+            (x, chunk_size),
+            block_sizes=[1, 1, 32],
+        )
+        torch.testing.assert_close(result, x + 1)
+        self.assertExpectedJournal(code)
+
     def test_softmax_unsqueeze(self):
         @helion.kernel(config={"block_size": 1})
         def softmax(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: