diff --git a/internal/boxcli/featureflag/script_exit_on_error.go b/internal/boxcli/featureflag/script_exit_on_error.go
index e5a562cb250..920d034e2fb 100644
--- a/internal/boxcli/featureflag/script_exit_on_error.go
+++ b/internal/boxcli/featureflag/script_exit_on_error.go
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ package featureflag
 
 // ScriptExitOnError controls whether scripts defined in devbox.json
 // and executed via `devbox run` should exit if any command within them errors.
-var ScriptExitOnError = disable("SCRIPT_EXIT_ON_ERROR")
+var ScriptExitOnError = enable("SCRIPT_EXIT_ON_ERROR")
diff --git a/internal/shellgen/scripts.go b/internal/shellgen/scripts.go
index b92bc58ee7b..2fdaa942b39 100644
--- a/internal/shellgen/scripts.go
+++ b/internal/shellgen/scripts.go
@@ -103,9 +103,7 @@ func WriteScriptFile(devbox devboxer, name, body string) (err error) {
 	defer script.Close() // best effort: close file
 
 	if featureflag.ScriptExitOnError.Enabled() {
-		// NOTE: Devbox scripts will run using `sh` for consistency.
-		// However, we need to disable this for `fish` shell if/when we allow this for init_hooks,
-		// since init_hooks run in the host shell, and not `sh`.
+		// NOTE: Devbox scripts run using `sh` for consistency.
 		body = fmt.Sprintf("set -e\n\n%s", body)
 	}
 	_, err = script.WriteString(body)