diff --git a/src/dawn/native/Device.cpp b/src/dawn/native/Device.cpp
index b49e6d5..242e900 100644
--- a/src/dawn/native/Device.cpp
+++ b/src/dawn/native/Device.cpp
@@ -339,19 +339,13 @@
         cacheDesc.functionUserdata = GetPlatform()->GetCachingInterface();
     }
 
-    // Disable caching if the toggle is passed, or the WGSL writer is not enabled.
-    // TODO(crbug.com/dawn/1481): Shader caching currently has a dependency on the WGSL writer to
-    // generate cache keys. We can lift the dependency once we also cache frontend parsing,
-    // transformations, and reflection.
-#if TINT_BUILD_WGSL_WRITER
+    // Disable caching if the DisableBlobCache toggle is enabled.
     if (IsToggleEnabled(Toggle::DisableBlobCache)) {
-#else
-    {
-#endif
         cacheDesc.loadDataFunction = nullptr;
         cacheDesc.storeDataFunction = nullptr;
         cacheDesc.functionUserdata = nullptr;
     }
+
     mBlobCache = std::make_unique<BlobCache>(cacheDesc);
 
     if (descriptor->requiredLimits != nullptr) {
diff --git a/src/dawn/native/TintUtils.cpp b/src/dawn/native/TintUtils.cpp
index 86374ae..c2b8d3d 100644
--- a/src/dawn/native/TintUtils.cpp
+++ b/src/dawn/native/TintUtils.cpp
@@ -185,18 +185,4 @@
     return map;
 }
 
-// static
-template <>
-void stream::Stream<tint::Program>::Write(stream::Sink* sink, const tint::Program& p) {
-#if TINT_BUILD_WGSL_WRITER
-    tint::wgsl::writer::Options options{};
-    StreamIn(sink, tint::wgsl::writer::Generate(p, options)->wgsl);
-#else
-    // TODO(crbug.com/dawn/1481): We shouldn't need to write back to WGSL if we have a CacheKey
-    // built from the initial shader module input. Then, we would never need to parse the program
-    // and write back out to WGSL.
-    DAWN_UNREACHABLE();
-#endif
-}
-
 }  // namespace dawn::native