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Having worked with delivering software on very short release cycles, my experience is that gaffa tape solutions often are the reason you need to "save the day" in the first place, where a well thought out solution could have saved us the headache.

The gaffa tape approach encourages further such poorly thought out modifications when the stacks of gaffa become a death trap that you either have to Indiana Jones your way through with a gun, bags of sand and a bullwhip or tear down and rewrite.