diff --git a/internal/backend/remote-state/gcs/backend.go b/internal/backend/remote-state/gcs/backend.go
index 8bd622b457f5..8bab376bf35d 100644
--- a/internal/backend/remote-state/gcs/backend.go
+++ b/internal/backend/remote-state/gcs/backend.go
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ func (b *Backend) configure(ctx context.Context) error {
 		if v, ok := data.GetOk("impersonate_service_account_delegates"); ok {
 			d := v.([]interface{})
 			if len(delegates) > 0 {
-				delegates = make([]string, len(d))
+				delegates = make([]string, 0, len(d))
 			}
 			for _, delegate := range d {
 				delegates = append(delegates, delegate.(string))
diff --git a/internal/cloud/backend_plan.go b/internal/cloud/backend_plan.go
index 0678d9360835..b8cde60151f4 100644
--- a/internal/cloud/backend_plan.go
+++ b/internal/cloud/backend_plan.go
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ in order to capture the filesystem context the remote workspace expects:
 		return nil, varDiags.Err()
 	}
 
-	runVariables := make([]*tfe.RunVariable, len(variables))
+	runVariables := make([]*tfe.RunVariable, 0, len(variables))
 	for name, value := range variables {
 		runVariables = append(runVariables, &tfe.RunVariable{
 			Key:   name,
diff --git a/internal/e2e/e2e.go b/internal/e2e/e2e.go
index e1ede0e46041..efdd2489a385 100644
--- a/internal/e2e/e2e.go
+++ b/internal/e2e/e2e.go
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ func (b *binary) Run(args ...string) (stdout, stderr string, err error) {
 // Path returns a file path within the temporary working directory by
 // appending the given arguments as path segments.
 func (b *binary) Path(parts ...string) string {
-	args := make([]string, len(parts)+1)
-	args[0] = b.workDir
+	args := make([]string, 0, len(parts)+1)
+	args = append(args, b.workDir)
 	args = append(args, parts...)
 	return filepath.Join(args...)
 }
diff --git a/internal/plugin6/convert/schema.go b/internal/plugin6/convert/schema.go
index 0bdf4e28402f..f3c59548cbdd 100644
--- a/internal/plugin6/convert/schema.go
+++ b/internal/plugin6/convert/schema.go
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ func configschemaObjectToProto(b *configschema.Object) *proto.Schema_Object {
 		nesting = proto.Schema_Object_INVALID
 	}
 
-	attributes := make([]*proto.Schema_Attribute, len(b.Attributes))
+	attributes := make([]*proto.Schema_Attribute, 0, len(b.Attributes))
 
 	for _, name := range sortedKeys(b.Attributes) {
 		a := b.Attributes[name]