This document discusses macros in Scala. Macros allow code to be generated at compile time by expanding directives or generating abstract syntax trees (ASTs). Examples show how macros can be used for validation, type generation, domain-specific languages (DSLs), and optimization without runtime overhead. The document explains macro types in Scala, how to construct ASTs using AST models, reify, and quasiquotes, and future plans to replace scala.reflect with the safer scala.meta metaprogramming toolkit.