diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts
index dc00bf14925..4068cb24a42 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Pipeline.ts
@@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ function* runWithEnvironment(
   validateContextVariableLValues(hir);
   validateUseMemo(hir);
 
-  if (!env.config.enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo) {
+  if (
+    !env.config.enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo &&
+    !env.config.disableMemoizationForDebugging
+  ) {
     dropManualMemoization(hir);
     yield log({ kind: "hir", name: "DropManualMemoization", value: hir });
   }
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts
index 7375c35c765..6809742d80a 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/HIR/Environment.ts
@@ -350,6 +350,15 @@ const EnvironmentConfigSchema = z.object({
    */
   enableTreatFunctionDepsAsConditional: z.boolean().default(false),
 
+  /**
+   * When true, always act as though the dependencies of a memoized value
+   * have changed. This makes the compiler not actually perform any optimizations,
+   * but is useful for debugging. Implicitly also sets
+   * @enablePreserveExistingManualUseMemo, because otherwise memoization in the
+   * original source will be disabled as well.
+   */
+  disableMemoizationForDebugging: z.boolean().default(false),
+
   /**
    * The react native re-animated library uses custom Babel transforms that
    * requires the calls to library API remain unmodified.
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts
index 075fb987922..fac5ea32d38 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/ReactiveScopes/CodegenReactiveFunction.ts
@@ -616,6 +616,14 @@ function codegenReactiveScope(
     );
   }
 
+  if (cx.env.config.disableMemoizationForDebugging) {
+    testCondition = t.logicalExpression(
+      "||",
+      testCondition,
+      t.booleanLiteral(true)
+    );
+  }
+
   let computationBlock = codegenBlock(cx, block);
   computationBlock.body.push(...cacheStoreStatements);
   const memoBlock = t.blockStatement(cacheLoadStatements);
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved-nomemo.expect.md b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved-nomemo.expect.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eac86076288
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved-nomemo.expect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+
+## Input
+
+```javascript
+// @disableMemoizationForDebugging
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+function Component({ a }) {
+  let x = useMemo(() => [a], []);
+  return <div>{x}</div>;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: Component,
+  params: [{ a: 42 }],
+  isComponent: true,
+};
+
+```
+
+## Code
+
+```javascript
+import { c as _c } from "react/compiler-runtime"; // @disableMemoizationForDebugging
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+function Component(t0) {
+  const $ = _c(5);
+  const { a } = t0;
+  let t1;
+  if ($[0] !== a || true) {
+    t1 = () => [a];
+    $[0] = a;
+    $[1] = t1;
+  } else {
+    t1 = $[1];
+  }
+  let t2;
+  if ($[2] === Symbol.for("react.memo_cache_sentinel") || true) {
+    t2 = [];
+    $[2] = t2;
+  } else {
+    t2 = $[2];
+  }
+  const x = useMemo(t1, t2);
+  let t3;
+  if ($[3] !== x || true) {
+    t3 = <div>{x}</div>;
+    $[3] = x;
+    $[4] = t3;
+  } else {
+    t3 = $[4];
+  }
+  return t3;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: Component,
+  params: [{ a: 42 }],
+  isComponent: true,
+};
+
+```
+      
+### Eval output
+(kind: ok) <div>42</div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved-nomemo.js b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved-nomemo.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b68649d9283
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/useMemo-simple-preserved-nomemo.js
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// @disableMemoizationForDebugging
+import { useMemo } from "react";
+
+function Component({ a }) {
+  let x = useMemo(() => [a], []);
+  return <div>{x}</div>;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: Component,
+  params: [{ a: 42 }],
+  isComponent: true,
+};