diff --git a/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/prettier.test.ts b/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/prettier.test.ts
index fd6ce4985..562477fe1 100644
--- a/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/prettier.test.ts
+++ b/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/prettier.test.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
  * Requires the root package.json#pnpm#overrides point at our internal
  * copy of @glimmer/syntax, or else prettier brings its own already published
  * copy of @glimmer/syntax
+ *
+ * NOTE: that this test alone is insufficient to test our built outputs.
+ *       the smoke-tests/* folders are for that purpose.
  */
 describe('Prettier', () => {
   it(`SMOKE: we've symlinked to the in-repo copy of @glimmer/syntax`, () => {
diff --git a/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/smoke.test.ts b/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/smoke.test.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index c9f2a82fe..000000000
--- a/packages/@glimmer-workspace/integration-node-tests/test/smoke.test.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-import { join } from 'node:path';
-
-import { WORKSPACE_ROOT } from '@glimmer-workspace/repo-metadata';
-import { $ } from 'execa';
-import { describe, it } from 'vitest';
-
-const NODE_SMOKE_DIR = join(WORKSPACE_ROOT, './smoke-tests/node');
-
-function inNodeSmoke(cmd: string, options = {}) {
-  return $({ cwd: NODE_SMOKE_DIR, preferLocal: true, shell: true, ...options })(cmd);
-}
-
-describe('Smake Tests', () => {
-  /**
-   * This is important because we don't test the code we ship to npm
-   * (the code we ship to npm goes through a build process, and we opted
-   *  to not do that for in-repo dev ergonomics)
-   */
-  it('Uses the real build, and not our monorepo infra', { timeout: 20_000 }, async () => {
-    await inNodeSmoke(
-      `node --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning --experimental-strip-types ./setup.ts`
-    );
-    await inNodeSmoke(`pnpm run test:node`);
-  });
-});