Your company is probably burning cash on robotic process automation that doesn't actually solve anything. Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. Stanford's AI Index shows task success on OSWorld jumped from 12% to 66% in just one year. Something is happening and RPA is not it.
RPA Is Just 2020 Thinking in a New Package
RPA copies what humans do. It clicks buttons. It fills forms. It never understands what it's doing. A perfect example is healthcare automation where RPA bots handle data entry but still need human validation to catch errors. The bot just repeats the same mistake faster. This is not automation. This is speed-running incompetence.
The Real Cost of RPA Failures
- RPA projects often hit budget overruns and scope creep because they don't handle edge cases well
- Human intervention is still required 30-50% of the time according to automation metrics
- Legacy on-prem RPA struggles with cloud apps APIs and modern workflows
- One company spent $50,000 on an RPA pilot that never made it to production
88% of AI agents never reach production deployment. That means the vast majority of automation projects are dead before they even start.
AI Agents Are Not RPA
AI computer use agents don't just follow instructions. They reason. They see the screen. They understand context. They handle errors that would break an RPA bot. The Stanford AI Index shows task success jumping from 12% to 66% on OSWorld in one year. That is not a small improvement. That is a fundamental shift in capability.
Why Most AI Agent Projects Still Fail
- Companies build agents that can't handle real-world edge cases
- They deploy over-engineered solutions instead of simple workflows
- They ignore governance and oversight until it's too late
- They chase benchmarks instead of real business value
Your Best Choice Is a Real Computer Use Agent
Not some API wrapper. Not a chatbot that pretends to use software. A real computer use agent that touches real desktops browsers and terminals. Coasty is one of the few agents that actually owns this space with 85.6% success on OSWorld from our in-house model plus 82.81% independently verified on the official leaderboard. Competitors are still stuck in the 60-70% range. That gap is not going to close itself.
Coasty Does What RPA Can't
- It controls real desktops browsers and terminals. Not just API calls
- Desktop app and cloud VMs so you can run agents wherever you need them
- Agent swarms for parallel execution so one agent isn't a bottleneck
- Free tier available plus BYOK support for sensitive workloads
Stop paying someone to copy-paste data in 2026. RPA is a legacy technology that never understood what it was automating. AI computer use agents do. If your automation project is stuck in the 2020 mindset you're wasting money. Start with Coasty and see what a real computer use agent can actually do.
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