diff --git a/examples/speculative-simple/speculative-simple.cpp b/examples/speculative-simple/speculative-simple.cpp
index b317792e6..90cb50749 100644
--- a/examples/speculative-simple/speculative-simple.cpp
+++ b/examples/speculative-simple/speculative-simple.cpp
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         // in this case, we do it for a group of accepted tokens at once
         //
         {
-            llama_token id;
+            llama_token id = 0;
             std::string token_str;
 
             for (size_t i = 0; i < ids.size(); ++i) {