diff --git a/gh-pages/content/overview/runtime-architecture.md b/gh-pages/content/overview/runtime-architecture.md
index b625de6dc2..3cbbec0f14 100644
--- a/gh-pages/content/overview/runtime-architecture.md
+++ b/gh-pages/content/overview/runtime-architecture.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Runtime Architecture
+
 ## Generated Libraries
 
 When using `jsii-pacmak` to generate libraries in different programming
@@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ The initialization workflow can be described as:
     the child's `STDERR` stream, and forwards the decoded data to it's host
     process' `STDERR` and `STDOUT` as needed.
 4. The *runtime client library* automatically loads the **Javascript** modules
-    bundled within the *generated bindings* (and their depedencies, bundled in
+    bundled within the *generated bindings* (and their dependencies, bundled in
     other *generated bindings*) into the `node` process when needed.
 5. Calls into the *Generated bindings* are encoded into JSON requests and sent
     to the child `node` process, which will execute the corresponding
diff --git a/packages/@jsii/kernel/src/kernel.ts b/packages/@jsii/kernel/src/kernel.ts
index caab41c6d0..c1c00127dc 100644
--- a/packages/@jsii/kernel/src/kernel.ts
+++ b/packages/@jsii/kernel/src/kernel.ts
@@ -1372,11 +1372,6 @@ export class Kernel {
       // Make sure the current NODE_OPTIONS are honored if we shell out to node
       const nodeOptions = [...process.execArgv];
 
-      // When we are using the symlinked version of the cache, we need to preserve both symlink settings for binaries
-      if (nodeOptions.includes('--preserve-symlinks')) {
-        nodeOptions.push('--preserve-symlinks-main');
-      }
-
       return {
         command: path.join(packageDir, scriptPath),
         args: req.args ?? [],
diff --git a/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/targets/python.ts b/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/targets/python.ts
index c0ab22271e..4f66c51e7d 100644
--- a/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/targets/python.ts
+++ b/packages/jsii-pacmak/lib/targets/python.ts
@@ -1833,6 +1833,11 @@ class PythonModule implements PythonType {
           code.line();
           code.line('import jsii');
           code.line('import sys');
+          code.line('import os');
+          code.line();
+          code.openBlock('if "JSII_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_CACHE" in os.environ');
+          code.line('os.environ["JSII_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_CACHE"] = "disabled"');
+          code.closeBlock();
           code.line();
           emitList(
             code,
diff --git a/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/generated-code/__snapshots__/target-python.test.js.snap b/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/generated-code/__snapshots__/target-python.test.js.snap
index dac58bf1dd..1f85526934 100644
--- a/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/generated-code/__snapshots__/target-python.test.js.snap
+++ b/packages/jsii-pacmak/test/generated-code/__snapshots__/target-python.test.js.snap
@@ -491,69 +491,6 @@ exports[`Generated code for "@scope/jsii-calc-base": <outDir>/python/src/scope/j
 
 `;
 
-exports[`Generated code for "@scope/jsii-calc-base": <runtime-type-check-diff>/ 1`] = `
-<runtime-type-check-diff>
- ┗━ 📁 python
-    ┗━ 📁 src
-       ┗━ 📁 scope
-          ┗━ 📁 jsii_calc_base
-             ┗━ 📄 __init__.py.diff
-`;
-
-exports[`Generated code for "@scope/jsii-calc-base": <runtime-type-check-diff>/python/src/scope/jsii_calc_base/__init__.py.diff 1`] = `
---- python/src/scope/jsii_calc_base/__init__.py	--no-runtime-type-checking
-+++ python/src/scope/jsii_calc_base/__init__.py	--runtime-type-checking
-@@ -50,10 +50,14 @@
-     ) -> None:
-         '''
-         :param foo: -
-         :param bar: -
-         '''
-+        if __debug__:
-+            type_hints = typing.get_type_hints(_typecheckingstub__e2d8a566db7d86eb1cb511cb869273dae39a21b3ad7041359aabb7bd283dcfef)
-+            check_type(argname="argument foo", value=foo, expected_type=type_hints["foo"])
-+            check_type(argname="argument bar", value=bar, expected_type=type_hints["bar"])
-         self._values: typing.Dict[builtins.str, typing.Any] = {
-             "foo": foo,
-             "bar": bar,
-         }
- 
-@@ -117,10 +121,13 @@
-     @builtins.classmethod
-     def consume(cls, *args: typing.Any) -> None:
-         '''
-         :param args: -
-         '''
-+        if __debug__:
-+            type_hints = typing.get_type_hints(_typecheckingstub__66400f6ebe2f9a3fbb550342b894bebf4f5368890843f3917e2b903f62d48b38)
-+            check_type(argname="argument args", value=args, expected_type=typing.Tuple[type_hints["args"], ...]) # pyright: ignore [reportGeneralTypeIssues]
-         return typing.cast(None, jsii.sinvoke(cls, "consume", [*args]))
- 
- 
- __all__ = [
-     "Base",
-@@ -128,5 +135,19 @@
-     "IBaseInterface",
-     "StaticConsumer",
- ]
- 
- publication.publish()
-+
-+def _typecheckingstub__e2d8a566db7d86eb1cb511cb869273dae39a21b3ad7041359aabb7bd283dcfef(
-+    *,
-+    foo: _scope_jsii_calc_base_of_base_49fa37fe.Very,
-+    bar: builtins.str,
-+) -> None:
-+    """Type checking stubs"""
-+    pass
-+
-+def _typecheckingstub__66400f6ebe2f9a3fbb550342b894bebf4f5368890843f3917e2b903f62d48b38(
-+    *args: typing.Any,
-+) -> None:
-+    """Type checking stubs"""
-+    pass
-`;
-
 exports[`Generated code for "@scope/jsii-calc-base-of-base": <outDir>/ 1`] = `
 <root>
  ┗━ 📁 python
@@ -11757,6 +11694,10 @@ exports[`Generated code for "jsii-calc": <outDir>/python/src/jsii_calc/_jsii/bin
 
 import jsii
 import sys
+import os
+
+if "JSII_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_CACHE" in os.environ:
+    os.environ["JSII_RUNTIME_PACKAGE_CACHE"] = "disabled"
 
 __jsii_assembly__ = jsii.JSIIAssembly.load(
     "jsii-calc", "3.20.120", "jsii_calc", "jsii-calc@3.20.120.jsii.tgz"