diff --git a/src/tools/clippy/Cargo.toml b/src/tools/clippy/Cargo.toml
index ddc27179ef2..cf810798d8c 100644
--- a/src/tools/clippy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/tools/clippy/Cargo.toml
@@ -67,10 +67,3 @@ harness = false
 [[test]]
 name = "dogfood"
 harness = false
-
-# quine-mc_cluskey makes up a significant part of the runtime in dogfood
-# due to the number of conditions in the clippy_lints crate
-# and enabling optimizations for that specific dependency helps a bit
-# without increasing total build times.
-[profile.dev.package.quine-mc_cluskey]
-opt-level = 3