diff --git a/docs/content/concepts/io-management/io-managers.mdx b/docs/content/concepts/io-management/io-managers.mdx
index 9f3013bd4b9c5..ab58035d99902 100644
--- a/docs/content/concepts/io-management/io-managers.mdx
+++ b/docs/content/concepts/io-management/io-managers.mdx
@@ -240,21 +240,25 @@ defs = Definitions(
 
 ### Using I/O managers to load source data
 
-Asset definitions often depend on data assets that are generated outside of Dagster, or in a different code location within Dagster, and it's often useful to use I/O managers to load the data from these assets. To represent one of these assets, you can create an asset definition that includes an I/O manager, but no materialization function. Your other assets can then depend on it and load data from it, just as they would with a materializable asset.
+Asset definitions often depend on data assets that are generated outside of Dagster, or in a different code location within Dagster, and it's often useful to use I/O managers to load the data from these assets. You can use an <PyObject object="AssetSpec" /> to define an asset with no materialization function, and you can assign an I/O manager to it by including an entry in its metadata dictionary with the `"dagster/io_manager_key"` key. Your other assets can then depend on it and load data from it, just as they would with a materializable asset.
 
 For example:
 
 ```python file=/concepts/io_management/source_asset.py
-from dagster import AssetKey, SourceAsset, asset
+from dagster import AssetKey, AssetSpec, Definitions, asset
 
-my_source_asset = SourceAsset(
-    key=AssetKey("my_source_asset"), io_manager_key="s3_io_manager"
+my_source_asset = AssetSpec(
+    key=AssetKey("my_source_asset"),
+    metadata={"dagster/io_manager_key": "s3_io_manager"},
 )
 
 
 @asset
 def my_derived_asset(my_source_asset):
     return my_source_asset + [4]
+
+
+defs = Definitions(assets=[my_source_asset, my_derived_asset])
 ```
 
 ### Asset input I/O managers
diff --git a/examples/docs_snippets/docs_snippets/concepts/io_management/source_asset.py b/examples/docs_snippets/docs_snippets/concepts/io_management/source_asset.py
index 9280a5078ac49..4043207daf349 100644
--- a/examples/docs_snippets/docs_snippets/concepts/io_management/source_asset.py
+++ b/examples/docs_snippets/docs_snippets/concepts/io_management/source_asset.py
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
-from dagster import AssetKey, SourceAsset, asset
+from dagster import AssetKey, AssetSpec, Definitions, asset
 
-my_source_asset = SourceAsset(
-    key=AssetKey("my_source_asset"), io_manager_key="s3_io_manager"
+my_source_asset = AssetSpec(
+    key=AssetKey("my_source_asset"),
+    metadata={"dagster/io_manager_key": "s3_io_manager"},
 )
 
 
 @asset
 def my_derived_asset(my_source_asset):
     return my_source_asset + [4]
+
+
+defs = Definitions(assets=[my_source_asset, my_derived_asset])