diff --git a/main/src/main/scala/sbt/Defaults.scala b/main/src/main/scala/sbt/Defaults.scala
index 0b0e761b8..1a8f61463 100644
--- a/main/src/main/scala/sbt/Defaults.scala
+++ b/main/src/main/scala/sbt/Defaults.scala
@@ -1818,16 +1818,8 @@ object Defaults extends BuildCommon {
       extraPrefix: String
   ): Initialize[File] =
     Def.setting {
-      val f = artifactName.value
       crossTarget.value /
-        (prefix(configuration.value.name) + extraPrefix) / f(
-        ScalaVersion(
-          (artifactName / scalaVersion).value,
-          (artifactName / scalaBinaryVersion).value
-        ),
-        projectID.value,
-        art.value
-      )
+        (prefix(configuration.value.name) + "early") / "early.jar"
     }
 
   private[sbt] def prefixArtifactPathSetting(
diff --git a/sbt-app/src/sbt-test/source-dependencies/pipelining/build.sbt b/sbt-app/src/sbt-test/source-dependencies/pipelining/build.sbt
index 96b5b5a17..25dfae396 100644
--- a/sbt-app/src/sbt-test/source-dependencies/pipelining/build.sbt
+++ b/sbt-app/src/sbt-test/source-dependencies/pipelining/build.sbt
@@ -17,6 +17,6 @@ lazy val use = project
       val x = (dep / Compile / compile).value
       val picklePath = (Compile / internalDependencyPicklePath).value
       assert(picklePath.size == 1 &&
-        picklePath.head.data.name == "dep_2.13-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar", s"picklePath = ${picklePath}")
+        picklePath.head.data.name == "early.jar", s"picklePath = ${picklePath}")
     },
   )