diff --git a/test/test_jit.py b/test/test_jit.py
index 7b0b5dc5f4..2a28bd0201 100644
--- a/test/test_jit.py
+++ b/test/test_jit.py
@@ -513,6 +513,24 @@ class TestJit(unittest.TestCase):
     with self.assertRaises(AssertionError):
       f(Tensor([2.0])).item()
 
+  def test_jit_item_not_supported(self):
+    # .item() is not jittable because the output shape depends on runtime values
+    @TinyJit
+    def f(x:Tensor) -> Tensor: return Tensor.zeros(x.sum().item())
+    for _ in range(3): f(Tensor([1, 1, 1]))  # sum=3
+    result = f(Tensor([2, 2, 2]))  # sum=6, but jit baked in n=3
+    self.assertEqual(result.shape, (3,))  # wrong, should be (6,)
+
+  def test_jit_masked_select_not_supported(self):
+    # masked_select uses .item() internally, so output size gets baked in
+    @TinyJit
+    def f(x:Tensor, mask:Tensor) -> Tensor: return x.masked_select(mask)
+    mask_2 = Tensor([True, False, True, False])
+    for _ in range(3): f(Tensor([1, 2, 3, 4]), mask_2)
+    mask_3 = Tensor([True, True, True, False])
+    result = f(Tensor([1, 2, 3, 4]), mask_3)
+    self.assertEqual(result.shape, (2,))  # wrong, should be (3,)
+
 @unittest.skip("Pending multioutput implementation #3607")
 class TestMultioutputJit(unittest.TestCase):
   def _test(self, f):