Why Automation Anywhere Is No Match for Real AI Agents in 2026
Automation Anywhere just bought Aisera and is in merger talks with C3.ai. That sounds like innovation. It isn't. It's panic. The big RPA vendors are scrambling to pretend they're AI companies while real AI agents are actually doing the work. Workers still waste a quarter of their week on manual repetitive tasks. That's 13 hours every single work week. That's insane.
RPA Is Stuck in 2020
Traditional RPA is still about clicking buttons on a screen it can't see. When a website layout changes RPA breaks. When a user moves a window RPA gets confused. You spend more time fixing your bots than they save you. This is why 40% of agentic AI projects get cancelled. But it's not because the technology is broken. It's because companies are trying to force RPA thinking onto problems that need real intelligence. Automation Anywhere calls this 'agentic process automation' but it's just RPA with a fancy new name.
The 40% Failure Rate Nobody Talks About
- ●40% of agentic AI projects get cancelled in 2026
- ●Governance gaps are the primary cause
- ●Companies burn millions on agents that never ship
- ●ITSM integrations like Aisera cause 20 to 30% churn
- ●Maintenance costs for RPA bots eat into every dollar of savings
The real problem isn't that AI agents are hard to build. It's that most of them don't actually use computers. They just call APIs. When you need to log into a dashboard click through a form and handle dynamic layouts you need a computer use agent. Not a bot that pretends to understand what's on the screen.
Real Computer Use Agents Are Different
A computer use agent doesn't just know where buttons are. It can see the screen. It can handle errors. It can recover when something goes wrong. That's how Coasty.ai hits 82% on the OSWorld benchmark while other tools struggle to break 38%. OpenAI's Operator was supposed to be a breakthrough. Analysts hyped it to infinity. Then the OSWorld benchmarks dropped and it looked bad. The difference is that Coasty controls real desktops and browsers. It doesn't just guess what to click. It actually sees and adapts. This is the kind of automation that actually pays for itself instead of becoming yet another zombie project that gets cancelled.
Why Coasty Exists
Companies are drowning in manual work while their automation tools collect dust. You can deploy Coasty on your own desktops or in cloud VMs. It can run in swarms to handle parallel tasks. It supports BYOK so your data stays in your control. The free tier lets you try it without committing to anything. When you compare Automation Anywhere's heavy marketing to Coasty's actual performance on real computer use benchmarks the choice becomes obvious. You don't need another platform you need an agent that can actually do the work.
Stop pretending your RPA vendor is an AI company. Start using tools that can truly use computers. Check out coasty.ai and see what a real computer use agent can do for you.