[surgical_fire]

I spoke things such as "this is genuinely" for a long time before LLMs.

I am worried people will think I use LLMs in my posts. This sort of sucks.

I am also not a native English speaker, which doubly sucks in this case; while I am fluent, I not always know what sounds natural in English.

[Gander5739]

I think it's hard to say what sounds natural, and what is a stylistic flaw that is nevertheless natural to say. For instance in your comment you say

> for a long time before LLMs.

The double use of the sound "fore" (in "for" and "before") can sound jarring.

Similarly "This sort of" feels a bit off to me, though I'm not sure a could definitively say why. Maybe it's a bit of a garden-path sentence; it looks like the noun "sort" before becoming the adverb "sort of". Or maybe this is just some kind of peculiarity I've picked up and your writing is perfectly natural.