diff --git a/tinygrad/tensor.py b/tinygrad/tensor.py
index 0f67e712ce..62c6dd3ef8 100644
--- a/tinygrad/tensor.py
+++ b/tinygrad/tensor.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # inspired by https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd/blob/master/micrograd/engine.py
 from __future__ import annotations
-import math, functools, itertools, operator
+import math, functools, itertools, operator, time
 import numpy as np
 from typing import List, Tuple, Callable, Optional, ClassVar, Type, Union, Sequence
 from tinygrad.helpers import prod, argfix, make_pair, getenv, IMAGE, DEBUG, flatten, DType, dtypes, ImageDType
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ class Tensor:
   @staticmethod
   def empty(*shape, **kwargs): return Tensor._loadop(LoadOps.EMPTY, prod(shape), **kwargs).reshape(shape)
 
-  _seed: int = 1337
+  _seed: int = int(time.time())
   @staticmethod
   def manual_seed(seed=None): Tensor._seed = seed
 
@@ -606,4 +606,4 @@ for device in Device._buffers:
 from tinygrad.nn.image import image_conv2d, image_dot
 if IMAGE:
   setattr(Tensor, "conv2d", image_conv2d)
-  setattr(Tensor, "dot", image_dot)
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+  setattr(Tensor, "dot", image_dot)