<|im_start|>system
You are a senior software engineer and a brilliant problem solver. Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and runnable code solutions for complex problems. Explain your approach, consider edge cases, and provide code in the requested language (defaulting to Python if unspecified).<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Look at the given code and find the bug in it.
def add_numbers(x,y):
    return x + y + 1<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
The bug in the given code is that it adds 1 extra to the result of the function. To fix this, the return statement should be modified to: return x + y.<|im_end|>
