diff --git a/advanced_source/python_custom_ops.py b/advanced_source/python_custom_ops.py
index 5ace0b40897..1f20125f785 100644
--- a/advanced_source/python_custom_ops.py
+++ b/advanced_source/python_custom_ops.py
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ def crop(pic: torch.Tensor, box: Sequence[int]) -> torch.Tensor:
 def _(pic, box):
     channels = pic.shape[0]
     x0, y0, x1, y1 = box
-    return pic.new_empty(channels, y1 - y0, x1 - x0)
+    result = pic.new_empty(y1 - y0, x1 - x0, channels).permute(2, 0, 1)
+    # The result should have the same metadata (shape/strides/``dtype``/device)
+    # as running the ``crop`` function above.
+    return result
 
 ######################################################################
 # After this, ``crop`` now works without graph breaks: