diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index daae93dcb38ab7..13df89d55bad06 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -304,10 +304,8 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - run:
           name: Resolve typescript version
-          environment:
-            TYPESCRIPT_DIST_TAG: next
           command: |
-            node scripts/useTypescriptDistTag.mjs
+            pnpm add typescript@next -d -w
             # log a patch for maintainers who want to check out this change
             git --no-pager diff HEAD
       - install_js
diff --git a/scripts/useTypescriptDistTag.mjs b/scripts/useTypescriptDistTag.mjs
deleted file mode 100644
index 04dd874907285f..00000000000000
--- a/scripts/useTypescriptDistTag.mjs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Workaround for failing `yarn add -D -W typescript@next`
- * See https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/7935
- *
- * Given an environment variable called `TYPESCRIPT_DIST_TAG` fetch the corresponding
- * version and make sure this version used in the worktree as well as in dtslint.
- *
- * If you work on this file:
- * WARNING: This script can only use built-in modules since it has to run before
- * `yarn install`
- */
-import childProcess from 'child_process';
-import fs from 'fs';
-import os from 'os';
-import path from 'path';
-import { promisify } from 'util';
-import { getWorkspaceRoot } from './utils.mjs';
-
-const exec = promisify(childProcess.exec);
-
-async function main(distTag) {
-  if (typeof distTag !== 'string') {
-    throw new TypeError(`expected distTag: string but got '${distTag}'`);
-  }
-
-  if (distTag === 'stable') {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
-    console.log('nothing to do with stable');
-    return;
-  }
-
-  const { stdout: versions } = await exec(`npm dist-tag ls typescript ${distTag}`);
-  const tagMapping = versions.split('\n').find((mapping) => {
-    return mapping.startsWith(`${distTag}: `);
-  });
-  if (tagMapping === undefined) {
-    throw new Error(`Could not find '${distTag}' in "${versions}"`);
-  }
-
-  const version = tagMapping.replace(`${distTag}: `, '');
-
-  const packageJsonPath = path.resolve(getWorkspaceRoot(), 'package.json');
-  const packageJson = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(packageJsonPath, { encoding: 'utf8' }));
-
-  packageJson.devDependencies.typescript = version;
-  packageJson.resolutions['**/dtslint/typescript'] = version;
-
-  // add newline for clean diff
-  fs.writeFileSync(packageJsonPath, `${JSON.stringify(packageJson, null, 2)}${os.EOL}`);
-}
-
-const [distTag = process.env.TYPESCRIPT_DIST_TAG] = process.argv.slice(2);
-main(distTag).catch((error) => {
-  console.error(error);
-  process.exit(1);
-});