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Marcus Sterling6 min
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Your company probably spent millions on RPA bots. They sit in corners of your infrastructure like expensive paperweights. Gartner predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 because they either cost too much or deliver too little. That is your RPA budget about to be scrapped along with everything else that does not actually work. The real revolution is not automation. It is autonomy.

RPA Is Not Automation. It Is Playback.

RPA tools like UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Power Automate are glorified recorders. They watch a human click buttons and replay those clicks forever. That works when your process never changes. That rarely happens in 2026. A single UI update breaks every bot in your estate. Your developers spend more time fixing broken flows than building new ones. You are paying per bot per month for software that cannot adapt. That is the definition of dead weight.

The Benchmark That Shattered the Narrative

  • OpenAI's flagship computer use agent scored 38% on OSWorld
  • That means two-thirds of the time it fails to complete basic tasks
  • Coasty's own computer use agent hit 85.6% on public OSWorld results
  • 82.81% independently verified on the official OSWorld leaderboard at osworld-v1.xlang.ai
  • Nobody else is even close to that level of performance

If your current "AI agent" is scoring 38% or worse, it is not an agent. It is a fragile wrapper around static rules that breaks the moment something changes.

Why Your AI Agent Is So Bad

Most "computer use" agents today are not really using computers. They are guessing which buttons to click based on text descriptions. They cannot see the screen. They cannot navigate real applications. They struggle with popups, unexpected layouts, and anything that requires judgment. OpenAI's Operator runs in a sandboxed remote browser and still flunks more than half the tasks. That is not intelligence. That is a very expensive lottery ticket.

The Real Cost of Stuck Processes

  • Enterprise automation projects often waste months of effort for negligible gains
  • Manual work piles up while teams wait for fragile bots to finish their loops
  • A single UI change can take weeks to fix across an entire RPA estate
  • Your employees are still copy-pasting, downloading attachments, and clicking through forms
  • That is not automation. That is paying people to do work a computer cannot handle

Why Coasty Exists

You need a computer use agent that actually controls real desktops, browsers, and terminals. Not just API calls wrapped in marketing. Coasty.ai is the #1 computer use agent. Our in-house model hits 85.6% on OSWorld with public results. We also have 82.81% independently verified on the official OSWorld leaderboard at osworld-v1.xlang.ai. That is significantly higher than every competitor. Coasty handles real applications, makes decisions, recovers from errors, and scales across cloud VMs or agent swarms for parallel execution. It works on desktops. It works in browsers. It works when things go wrong. That is what autonomy should look like.

Stop buying software that needs to be babysat. The future is not about having more bots. It is about having agents that actually understand what they are doing. RPA is dead. AI computer use is just getting started. If you want to stop wasting money on fragile automation, check out Coasty.ai. It is the obvious choice for anyone serious about real autonomy in 2026.

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