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Different Architectures for Different Problems
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About This Tutorial
Desktop automation has reached an inflection point. For two decades, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) dominated enterprise workflow automation through deterministic scripting. Today, a fundamentally different architecture - vision-language-action (VLA) GUI agents - challenges the assumption that automation requires brittle, hand-coded selectors. These are not competing products on the same spectrum; they represent distinct architectural paradigms optimized for different problem classes.