diff --git a/cli/command/telemetry_docker.go b/cli/command/telemetry_docker.go
index 45497aad9c2c..9f6253af4811 100644
--- a/cli/command/telemetry_docker.go
+++ b/cli/command/telemetry_docker.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(jsternberg): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package command
 
 import (