diff --git a/aider/linter.py b/aider/linter.py
index 102f4d6a5..d055b30ce 100644
--- a/aider/linter.py
+++ b/aider/linter.py
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from grep_ast import TreeContext, filename_to_lang
 from tree_sitter_languages import get_parser  # noqa: E402
 
-from aider.dump import dump
-
 # tree_sitter is throwing a FutureWarning
 warnings.simplefilter("ignore", category=FutureWarning)