diff --git a/eval/public/cel_options.h b/eval/public/cel_options.h
index 672324de1..152c2a77a 100644
--- a/eval/public/cel_options.h
+++ b/eval/public/cel_options.h
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ struct InterpreterOptions {
   // never used in the result subexpression of the cel.bind() macro. This allows
   // for consistent behavior for CEL compiler optimized expressions that extract
   // subexpressions to cel.bind calls.
-  bool enable_lazy_bind_initialization = false;
+  bool enable_lazy_bind_initialization = true;
 };
 // LINT.ThenChange(//depot/google3/runtime/runtime_options.h)
 
diff --git a/runtime/runtime_options.h b/runtime/runtime_options.h
index 0e1df1ecc..57bbdf50b 100644
--- a/runtime/runtime_options.h
+++ b/runtime/runtime_options.h
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ struct RuntimeOptions {
   // never used in the result subexpression of the cel.bind() macro. This allows
   // for consistent behavior for CEL compiler optimized expressions that extract
   // subexpressions to cel.bind calls.
-  bool enable_lazy_bind_initialization = false;
+  bool enable_lazy_bind_initialization = true;
 };
 // LINT.ThenChange(//depot/google3/eval/public/cel_options.h)