diff --git a/Tiltfile b/Tiltfile
index ee0941c3..53c3a8e4 100644
--- a/Tiltfile
+++ b/Tiltfile
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ custom_build(
     outputs_image_ref_to='result/ref',
 )
 
-# Load the latest CRDs from Nix
-watch_file('result')
-if os.path.exists('result'):
-   k8s_yaml('result/crds.yaml')
-
 # We need to set the correct image annotation on the operator Deployment to use e.g.
 # oci.stackable.tech/sandbox/opa-operator:7y19m3d8clwxlv34v5q2x4p7v536s00g instead of
 # oci.stackable.tech/sandbox/opa-operator:0.0.0-dev (which does not exist)
@@ -35,18 +30,12 @@ helm_values = settings.get('helm_values', None)
 
 helm_override_image_repository = 'image.repository=' + registry + '/' + operator_name
 
-# Exclude stale CRDs from Helm chart, and apply the rest
-helm_crds, helm_non_crds = filter_yaml(
-   helm(
-      'deploy/helm/' + operator_name,
-      name=operator_name,
-      namespace="stackable-operators",
-      set=[
-         helm_override_image_repository,
-      ],
-      values=helm_values,
-   ),
-   api_version = "^apiextensions\\.k8s\\.io/.*$",
-   kind = "^CustomResourceDefinition$",
-)
-k8s_yaml(helm_non_crds)
+k8s_yaml(helm(
+   'deploy/helm/' + operator_name,
+   name=operator_name,
+   namespace="stackable-operators",
+   set=[
+      helm_override_image_repository,
+   ],
+   values=helm_values,
+))
diff --git a/shell.nix b/shell.nix
index 7ef77f28..b6ee3afb 100644
--- a/shell.nix
+++ b/shell.nix
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ in pkgs.mkShell rec {
   ];
 
   # derivation runtime dependencies
-  buildInputs = pkgs.lib.concatMap (crate: crate.buildInputs) cargoDependencySet;
+  buildInputs = pkgs.lib.unique (pkgs.lib.concatMap (crate: crate.buildInputs) cargoDependencySet);
 
   # build time dependencies
-  nativeBuildInputs = pkgs.lib.concatMap (crate: crate.nativeBuildInputs) cargoDependencySet ++ (with pkgs; [
+  nativeBuildInputs = pkgs.lib.unique (pkgs.lib.concatMap (crate: crate.nativeBuildInputs) cargoDependencySet ++ (with pkgs; [
     beku
     docker
     gettext # for the proper envsubst
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ in pkgs.mkShell rec {
     # tilt already defined in default.nix
     which
     yq-go
-  ]);
+  ]));
 
   LIBCLANG_PATH = "${pkgs.libclang.lib}/lib";
   BINDGEN_EXTRA_CLANG_ARGS = "-I${pkgs.glibc.dev}/include -I${pkgs.clang}/resource-root/include";