diff --git a/bun.lockb b/bun.lockb
index ef55315d0..4237d2352 100755
Binary files a/bun.lockb and b/bun.lockb differ
diff --git a/packages/knip/.gitignore b/packages/knip/.gitignore
index dc65baea2..e5fb1bd66 100644
--- a/packages/knip/.gitignore
+++ b/packages/knip/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 /tmp
 /node_modules
 !/fixtures/**
+.cache
diff --git a/packages/knip/package.json b/packages/knip/package.json
index 03c776217..2387f493b 100644
--- a/packages/knip/package.json
+++ b/packages/knip/package.json
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
     "easy-table": "1.2.0",
     "enhanced-resolve": "^5.17.1",
     "fast-glob": "^3.3.2",
-    "jiti": "^1.21.6",
+    "jiti": "^2.0.0",
     "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "minimist": "^1.2.8",
     "picocolors": "^1.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/knip/src/util/jiti.ts b/packages/knip/src/util/jiti.ts
index c955a9ff3..26667703a 100644
--- a/packages/knip/src/util/jiti.ts
+++ b/packages/knip/src/util/jiti.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
-import createJITI, { type JITIOptions } from 'jiti';
+import { type JitiOptions, createJiti } from 'jiti';
 import { DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS } from '../constants.js';
 import { join } from './path.js';
 
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ const options = {
   },
 };
 
-// @ts-expect-error Our package.json has type=module (for globby, picocolors, etc), but here it confuses TypeScript
-const createLoader = (options: JITIOptions) => createJITI(process.cwd(), options);
+const createLoader = (options: JitiOptions) => createJiti(process.cwd(), options);
 
-export const jitiCJS = createLoader(options);
-
-export const jitiESM = createLoader({ ...options, esmResolve: true });
+export const jiti = createLoader(options);
diff --git a/packages/knip/src/util/loader.ts b/packages/knip/src/util/loader.ts
index 94231e716..0578a88d9 100644
--- a/packages/knip/src/util/loader.ts
+++ b/packages/knip/src/util/loader.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { timerify } from './Performance.js';
 import { LoaderError } from './errors.js';
 import { loadFile, loadJSON, loadTOML, loadYAML, parseJSON, parseYAML } from './fs.js';
 import { isTypeModule } from './fs.js';
-import { jitiCJS, jitiESM } from './jiti.js';
+import { jiti } from './jiti.js';
 import { extname, isInternal } from './path.js';
 
 const load = async (filePath: string) => {
@@ -45,11 +45,7 @@ const load = async (filePath: string) => {
       return imported.default ?? imported;
     }
 
-    if (ext === '.mts' || ((ext === '.ts' || ext === '.tsx') && isTypeModule(filePath))) {
-      return await jitiESM(filePath);
-    }
-
-    return await jitiCJS(filePath);
+    return await jiti(filePath);
   } catch (error) {
     throw new LoaderError(`Error loading ${filePath}`, { cause: error });
   }
diff --git a/packages/knip/test/util/find-and-parse-gitignores.test.ts b/packages/knip/test/util/find-and-parse-gitignores.test.ts
index 4de2f80c8..604a49c6a 100644
--- a/packages/knip/test/util/find-and-parse-gitignores.test.ts
+++ b/packages/knip/test/util/find-and-parse-gitignores.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ test('findAndParseGitignores', async () => {
   assert.deepEqual(gitignore, {
     gitignoreFiles: ['../../.gitignore', '../../../../.gitignore', '.gitignore', 'a/.gitignore', 'a/b/.gitignore'],
     ignores: new Set([
+      '**/.cache',
+      '**/.cache/**',
       '**/.idea',
       '**/.idea/**',
       '.git',
@@ -34,6 +36,8 @@ test('findAndParseGitignores (/a)', async () => {
       '.yarn',
       '**/b/c',
       '**/b/c/**',
+      '**/.cache',
+      '**/.cache/**',
       '**/.idea',
       '**/.idea/**',
     ]),
@@ -59,6 +63,8 @@ test('findAndParseGitignores (/a/b', async () => {
       '.yarn',
       '**/c',
       '**/c/**',
+      '**/.cache',
+      '**/.cache/**',
       '**/.idea',
       '**/.idea/**',
     ]),