diff --git a/misc/python/materialize/mzcompose/__init__.py b/misc/python/materialize/mzcompose/__init__.py
index c9e1e2a380b10..db74b6348891e 100644
--- a/misc/python/materialize/mzcompose/__init__.py
+++ b/misc/python/materialize/mzcompose/__init__.py
@@ -65,8 +65,6 @@
     "persist_streaming_compaction_enabled": "true",
     "persist_streaming_snapshot_and_fetch_enabled": "true",
     "storage_source_decode_fuel": "100000",
-    # 128 MiB,
-    "compute_dataflow_max_inflight_bytes": "134217728",
     "enable_unified_clusters": "true",
     "enable_jemalloc_profiling": "true",
     "enable_comment": "true",