diff --git a/src/doc/rustc/src/profile-guided-optimization.md b/src/doc/rustc/src/profile-guided-optimization.md
index 465a26a1301b..951dda03e80d 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustc/src/profile-guided-optimization.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustc/src/profile-guided-optimization.md
@@ -165,5 +165,5 @@ cargo pgo optimize
 These steps will do the following just as before:
 
 1. Build an instrumented binary from the source code.
-2. Use the instrumentation in the binary when running it for the first time.
+2. Run the instrumented binary to gather PGO profiles.
 3. Use the instrumentation results from the last step to create an optimized binary.