diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 9d8caa83fdee..92abd458ebb9 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -29,14 +29,12 @@
 
 # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
 
-# This setting controls how single backticks are handled by sphinx. Developers
-# are used to using single backticks for code, but RST syntax requires that code
-# code to be denoted with _double_ backticks.
-# Here we make sphinx treat single backticks as code also, because everyone is
-# used to using single backticks as is done with markdown; without this setting,
-# lots of documentation ends up getting committed with single backticks anyway,
-# so we might as well make it work as developers intend for it to.
-default_role = "code"
+# The name of a reST role (builtin or Sphinx extension) to use as the default role, that
+# is, for text marked up `like this`. This can be set to 'py:obj' to make `filter` a
+# cross-reference to the Python function “filter”. The default is None, which doesn’t
+# reassign the default role.
+
+default_role = "py:obj"
 
 sys.path.append(os.path.abspath("./_ext"))
 
@@ -94,14 +92,6 @@
 
 myst_heading_anchors = 3
 
-# Make broken internal references into build time errors.
-# See https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-nitpicky
-# for more information. :py:class: references are ignored due to false positives
-# arising from type annotations. See https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/46103
-# for additional context.
-nitpicky = True
-nitpick_ignore_regex = [("py:class", ".*")]
-
 # Cache notebook outputs in _build/.jupyter_cache
 # To prevent notebook execution, set this to "off". To force re-execution, set this to
 # "force". To cache previous runs, set this to "cache".